{"id":522721,"date":"2026-03-08T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522721\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:55:10","slug":"hwy-401-at-keele-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522721\/","title":{"rendered":"Hwy. 401 at Keele Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">All eastbound lanes of Highway 401 at Keele Street have reopened after being closed for more than an hour while police responded to a \u201cperson in crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Earlier Sunday morning, Toronto police said the Keele Street bridge and the eastbound Highway 401 collector and express lanes were blocked shortly before 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a separate update at the time, Ontario Provincial Police confirmed that all eastbound collector and express lanes at Keele Street were closed while officers investigated in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When asked what prompted the closure, officials told CP24 in an email that officers were responding to a \u201cperson in crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said shortly after 10:40 a.m. that all eastbound lanes had reopened.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CLEARED (10:40 a.m.): All lanes on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hwy401?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Hwy401<\/a> eastbound at Keele St have reopened. ^pia<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OPP GTA Traffic (@OPP_GTATraffic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OPP_GTATraffic\/status\/2030655328505987110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All eastbound lanes of Highway 401 at Keele Street have reopened after being closed for more than an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-522721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522721","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=522721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}