{"id":482325,"date":"2026-02-18T05:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482325\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T05:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:31:29","slug":"rcmp-issue-tow-ban-on-qeii-between-red-deer-and-edmonton-centralalbertaonline-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482325\/","title":{"rendered":"RCMP issue tow ban on QEII between Red Deer and Edmonton &#8211; CentralAlbertaOnline.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RCMP issued a tow ban Tuesday afternoon for the QE II from Edmonton to just north of Red Deer.<\/p>\n<p>Blowing and drifting snow is causing reduced visibility and dangerous driving conditions that make tow operations too dangerous. Police are responding to several minor collisions in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in areas to the South of Red Deer,\u00a0Didsbury RCMP is advising motorists that driving conditions on the QE11 are very poor. Numerous collisions have been reported in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Please avoid travel until conditions improve.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralalbertaonline.com\/features\/road-reports,-school-closures-and-bus-cancellations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the latest traffic updates.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralalbertaonline.com\/features\/daily-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up<\/a>\u00a0to get the latest local news headlines delivered directly to your inbox every afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Send your news tips, story ideas, pictures, and videos to news@centralalbertaonline.com.<\/p>\n<p>CentralAlbertaOnline encourages you to get your news directly from your trusted source by bookmarking this page and downloading the CentralAlbertaOnline app.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RCMP issued a tow ban Tuesday afternoon for the QE II from Edmonton to just north of Red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-482325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482325","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=482325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}