{"id":630919,"date":"2026-04-27T01:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630919\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T01:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:26:09","slug":"clarington-head-on-collision-80-year-old-man-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630919\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarington head-on collision: 80-year-old man dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0April 26, 2026 at 8:05PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0April 26, 2026 at 6:12PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An 80-year-old man is dead following a head-on collision near Clarington, Ont., on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ontario Provincial Police said two SUVs collided in the northbound lanes of Highway 35\/115, south of Concession Road 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver of one of the SUVs, who was a Clarington resident, was pronounced dead at the scene, OPP said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The other driver was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cause of the collision is not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The northbound lanes of the highway remain closed between Highway 2 and Concession Road 3 for several hours as police investigate the collision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0April 26, 2026 at 8:05PM EDT Published:\u00a0April 26, 2026 at 6:12PM EDT An 80-year-old man is dead following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-630919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630919","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=630919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}