{"id":594162,"date":"2026-04-10T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594162\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:00:15","slug":"death-toll-climbs-to-5-from-norwich-crash-as-2-more-victims-succumb-to-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594162\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll climbs to 5 from Norwich crash, as 2 more victims succumb to injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Two people critically injured last week in a Norwich Township collision that claimed the lives of two teenagers and an adult have now died of their injuries in hospital, provincial police said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old and 46-year-old, both from Tillsonburg, were among five people riding in an SUV on March 31 when it collided with a transport truck at the intersection of Highway 59 and Quaker Street around 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A 13-year-old and 17-year-old, both from Tillsonburg, and a 39-year-old Cambridge resident were pronounced dead at the scene, while the 21-year-old and 46-year-old were rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those passengers [&#8230;] have since succumbed to their injuries and were pronounced deceased,&#8221; police said in a brief media statement. <\/p>\n<p>The driver of the transport truck was not physically hurt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result of the investigation, no charges will be laid, and no further information will be released,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-594162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594162","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=594162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}