{"id":573274,"date":"2026-03-31T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573274\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:57:08","slug":"94-year-old-from-ottawa-killed-in-head-on-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573274\/","title":{"rendered":"94-year-old from Ottawa killed in head-on crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OPP_COMM_ER\/status\/2038646333553197059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ottawa man is dead after two vehicles collided head-on near Pembroke<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial police were called to Highway 17 near Paul Martin Drive in the Ottawa Valley for a serious crash around 11:35 a.m. When they arrived, Renfrew County Paramedics and firefighters from the Township of Laurentian Valley were also called.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened between a car and an SUV. Police said the evidence indicated the two vehicles were driving in opposite directions before they collided.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the incident, a 94-year-old man from the nation\u2019s capital was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A 32-year-old from the Laurentian Valley in the SUV was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. There were no passengers in either vehicle, police detail. <\/p>\n<p>Officials are continuing the investigation that closed Highway 17 for almost eight hours on Monday. They are asking anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Chief Coroner and Ontario Forensic Pathology Service are leading the investigation that will include a post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ottawa man is dead after two vehicles collided head-on near Pembroke on Monday. Provincial police were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-573274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573274","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=573274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}