By Edgar J. Lavoie Completing the First Trans-Canada Highway in Ontario For 2018, a group of volunteers are organizing to commemorate an historic event that occurred in 1943. For the first time, a highway linked Eastern and Western Canada entirely on Canadian soil. In 1939, there was no highway [Read more]
SCHREIBER, ON – On February 24, 2016 at approximately 11:20 p.m. members of the Schreiber Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a vehicle fire at Highway 17, east of Terrace Bay. The driver of a west bound tractor trailer unit pulled to the right side of the highway [Read more]
NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO – Earlier this morning (Sun.Feb.21,2016) Highway 17 was closed at the at Pic River Bridge due to a vehicle on fire following a motor vehicle collision involving a second vehicle. All occupants had been removed from the vehicle when Ontario Provincial Police notified [Read more]
WAWA, ON – On Thursday February 4, 2016 members of the Superior East Wawa Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were conducting radar patrols on Highway 17 in the Township of Vasiloff when they observed a motor vehicle travelling at a high rate of speed. The driver was stopped for a [Read more]
MARATHON, ON –On February 2, 2016 at approximately 3:00 p.m. members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marathon Detachment conducted a R.I.D.E. program at Highway 17, Township of Marathon. A west bound commercial motor vehicle was stopped and after speaking to the male driver, an [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – Marathon Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) advise that Highway 17 at Pic River Bridge is now open. The bridge was re-opened as of 2255 hrs (10:55pm). _____________ Motorists are reminded not to call O.P.P. Provincial Communication Centres for road advisory updates or road [Read more]
Marathon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police advise of the following Road Closure: Highway: Hwy#17 Location: Hwy#17 at the Pic River Bridge. Brief Description of Event: A truck has struck the bridge and is unable to be moved. Resources are en route to remove it. Traffic is being [Read more]
MARATHON ON – On Highway 17 in the Marathon area over the previous week, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers have charged two drivers under the Highway Traffic Act for speeding 50km/hr over the posted speed limit. Drivers are reminded that driving speeds of 50km/hr over the posted speed [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON — The Ministry of Transportation advises the motoring public that the Pic River and Gravel River bridges on Highway 17, between White River and Nipigon, will remain reduced to single lane traffic this winter. A temporary single lane modular bridge will remain in place with [Read more]
2015-10-24 RE-OPENED ROAD ADVISORY NOTIFICATION Marathon detachment Highway 17, 30 km west of Marathon re-opened at 20:35 hrs Please do not call O.P.P. Provincial Communication Centres for road advisory updates or road condition information. Visit the Ontario Ministry of Transportation website [Read more]
WAWA, ON – Sunday October 11, 2015 at approximately 4:00 p.m., officers from the Superior East Wawa Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a single motor vehicle collision involving a motorcycle on Highway 17 in the Agawa Bay area. Investigation revealed that the 61 years [Read more]
Rec’vd Thu, September 3, 2015 11:37 am WAWA, ON – Thursday August 27, 2015 at approximately 7:00 am, members of the Superior East Wawa Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called to a single motor vehicle rollover on Highway 17 in the Laronde Township. Investigating [Read more]
WAWA, ON – On Thursday August 27, 2015 at approximately 7:00 am, members of the Superior East Wawa Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called to a single motor vehicle rollover on Highway 17 approximately 20 Kilometers South of Wawa in the Laronde Township. Investigating [Read more]
MARATHON, ON –On Tuesday July 28, 2015 approximately 06:45am, officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marathon detachment were advised of a motor vehicle collision involving two motor vehicles on Highway 17 approximately 40km West of Marathon ON. An eastbound motor vehicle, a [Read more]
WHITE RIVER, ON – On Saturday June 27, 2015, at approximately 11:07 p.m. officers from the Superior East White River Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) had occasion to stop a pick up truck at a R.I.D.E. check on Highway 17 in the Township of White River. Investigation revealed [Read more]
