{"id":87261,"date":"2026-10-15T11:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=87261"},"modified":"2026-10-15T11:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:35:32","slug":"marathon-opp-pedestrian-deceased-after-collision-driver-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/marathon-opp-pedestrian-deceased-after-collision-driver-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon OPP &#8211; Pedestrian Deceased after Collision, Driver Charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859-300x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>On Thursday, October 15, 2026, shortly before 2:00 a.m., officers with the Marathon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and emergency medical services (EMS) responded to a collision on Stevens Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old female pedestrian from Kasabonika First Nation suffered life-threatening injuries and was pronounced deceased at hospital. There were no other reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Cory BRICKWOOD, 23 years old from Marathon, was arrested and charged with the following <em>Criminal Code <\/em>offences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Operation causing death<\/li>\n<li>Operation while impaired &#8211; blood alcohol concentration (80 plus)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The accused is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Marathon on Thursday, October 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens Avenue in Marathon between Gilbert Street and Whitman Court is closed. Police are asking residents to avoid the area as the OPP Traffic Incident Management Enforcement team continues their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have witnessed this collision or has home security, doorbell, or dashcam footage to call 1-888-310-1122. Should you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, October 15, 2026, shortly before 2:00 a.m., officers with the Marathon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and emergency medical services (EMS) responded to a collision on Stevens Avenue. The 22-year-old female pedestrian from Kasabonika First Nation suffered life-threatening injuries and was pronounced deceased at hospital. There were no other reported injuries. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":75103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-22 11:37:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87262,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87261\/revisions\/87262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}