{"id":141315,"date":"2025-09-13T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141315\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T15:50:07","slug":"highway-401-closed-in-toronto-after-tanker-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141315\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway 401 closed in Toronto after tanker crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0September 13, 2025 at 10:45AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0September 13, 2025 at 6:36AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A stretch of Highway 401 has fully reopened after a late-night collision involving a tanker truck and multiple vehicles shut down both directions near Avenue Road, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a post to social media, police said all lanes were initially closed between Allen Road and Avenue Road as emergency crews responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">By early Saturday morning, officials said eastbound lanes had reopened while westbound express lanes remained closed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/KSXBPBZVBFB77AW2XNOIPB7JZQ.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"449\"\/>OPP A broken barricade is seen after a collision along Highway 401 on Friday September 12, 2025 (CP24 photo). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One person was taken to hospital with \u201cnon-life-threatening injuries,\u201d police noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of 10:19 a.m. Saturday, officials confirmed all lanes of Highway 401 have \u201ccompletely reopened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE (10:19 a.m.): Highway 401 has completely reopened following the multi-vehicle collision. Thank you for your patience and cooperation. ^pia<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OPP GTA Traffic (@OPP_GTATraffic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OPP_GTATraffic\/status\/1966869269683335231?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0September 13, 2025 at 10:45AM EDT Published:\u00a0September 13, 2025 at 6:36AM EDT A stretch of Highway 401 has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-141315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}