{"id":87390,"date":"2026-10-19T14:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=87390"},"modified":"2026-10-19T14:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:33:17","slug":"hwy-17-wawa-to-ssm-closed-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/hwy-17-wawa-to-ssm-closed-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Hwy 17 (Wawa to Batchawana &#8211; Jct 563\/17) CLOSED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Oct 19, 2026 at 14:18<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At 14:08 the closure has been moved from Heyden to Batchawna Bay (Junction of Hwy 17 and Hwy 563).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Collision on HWY 17 Both Directions between SEC HWY 563-BATCHAWANA, Batchawana Bay and OPP DETACHMENT, WAWA, Wawa. All lanes closed. &#8212; ON511&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Oct 19, 2026 at 13:51<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">From OPP NE Region (13:24) &#8211; &#8220;Highway 17 is closed between Mills Drive in Wawa to Sault Ste. Marie due to a serious collision in the Batchawana Bay area between a transport truck and a passenger vehicle. The extent of injuries is not yet known.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Oct 19, 2026 at 13:16<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>ON511 is reporting that Hwy 17 is closed between Waawa and Heyden. OPP are manning the barricade at Pinewood Drive (Wawa). Social media is putting the incident in the Pancake Bay area.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was closed at 12:48 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 19, 2026 at 14:18 At 14:08 the closure has been moved from Heyden to Batchawna Bay (Junction of Hwy 17 and Hwy 563). &#8220;Collision on HWY 17 Both Directions between SEC HWY 563-BATCHAWANA, Batchawana Bay and OPP DETACHMENT, WAWA, Wawa. All lanes closed. &#8212; ON511&#8221; Oct 19, 2026 at 13:51 From OPP NE Region &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-26 15:15:31","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\/87390","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87390"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87399,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87390\/revisions\/87399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}