{"id":76543,"date":"2025-08-17T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/76543\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:37:09","slug":"qew-burlington-crash-temporarily-closes-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/76543\/","title":{"rendered":"QEW Burlington crash temporarily closes highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"c-overline b-overline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0August 17, 2025 at 7:15AM EDT<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/57SFCSUMVFHNFNNIQNGW7IXTBE.jpg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>OPP investigating a serious motorcycle crash that temporarily shut down a stretch of the QEW in Burlington on Saturday August 16, 2025 (CP24 photo). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ontario Provincial Police say a serious motorcycle crash temporarily shut down the eastbound lanes of the QEW near Burloak Drive in Burlington on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers from the Burlington OPP say they were called to the collision just before 10 p.m. One person was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">All eastbound lanes were closed but have since reopened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The investigation is ongoing and anyone with information or dashcam footage is asked to contact Burlington OPP or Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CLEARED (1.35 a.m.): All lanes on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/QEW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#QEW<\/a> eastbound near Burloak Drive in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Burlington?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Burlington<\/a> have reopened. One individual was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BurlingtonOPP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#BurlingtonOPP<\/a> thanks the public for their patience. ^pia<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OPP GTA Traffic (@OPP_GTATraffic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OPP_GTATraffic\/status\/1956953889846005910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News Published:\u00a0August 17, 2025 at 7:15AM EDT OPP investigating a serious motorcycle crash that temporarily shut down a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-76543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76543","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=76543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}