{"id":743214,"date":"2026-06-17T17:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743214\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:57:09","slug":"fatal-crash-shuts-down-stretch-of-highway-59-south-of-winnipeg-for-several-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743214\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal crash shuts down stretch of Highway 59 south of Winnipeg for several hours"},"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>One person is dead after a head-on crash between a vehicle and a semi-trailer south of Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP were called just before 12:30 a.m. Wednesday to the crash on Highway 59 near Prefontaine Road, about 20 kilometres south of the city.<\/p>\n<p>A vehicle with two people inside was heading north on Highway 59 when it crossed into the path of the southbound semi, RCMP said in a news release. The semi and vehicle both ended up in the ditch.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the northbound vehicle, a 20-year-old man from Ontario, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger, a 13-year-old boy from Steinbach, Man., was airlifted to a Winnipeg hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the semi, a 45-year-old man from Alberta, was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>A 10-kilometre stretch of Highway 59, from Highway 210 to Highway 311, was closed for more than 10 hours, reopening just before 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>A caution remains in place, however, with a reduced speed of 60 km\/h in the area, as RCMP and workers remain on scene, 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":743215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-743214","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\/743214","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=743214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}