{"id":651821,"date":"2026-05-06T15:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/651821\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:53:10","slug":"collision-shuts-down-section-of-highway-1-near-oak-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/651821\/","title":{"rendered":"Collision shuts down section of Highway 1 near Oak Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A collision has closed a section of Highway 1 between Griswold and Oak Lake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Virden RCMP say they believe a large box truck lost control, near Highway 1 and Road 134 West, shortly after 8 a.m. and is now on its side, blocking both lanes of westbound traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The male driver of the vehicle sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Map of collision site\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"712ea704-c9b0-43d8-9ea1-38f0fa6eb51f\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Untitled design - 2026-05-06T094513.425.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Crews are working to clear the highway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are encouraged to avoid the area. Significant delays are expected<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how long the road closure will remain in effect.<\/p>\n<p>More details to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A collision has closed a section of Highway 1 between Griswold and Oak Lake.\u00a0 Virden RCMP say they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-651821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651821","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=651821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}