{"id":769370,"date":"2026-06-29T18:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769370\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:24:12","slug":"manitoba-teen-17-dead-in-highway-crash-outside-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769370\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba teen, 17, dead in highway crash outside Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating the death of a 17-year-old in a highway crash southeast of Winnipeg on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>St. Pierre-Jolys RCMP say the SUV driven by the teen from Dufresne hit the ditch and flipped while travelling on Highway 405 near Lorette.<\/p>\n<p>Police were notified at 6:45 a.m., but they believe the crash happened overnight \u201cand went unnoticed until daylight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived at the scene to find the vehicle severely damaged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a search of the area for the driver, he was found inside the vehicle, concealed by the extent of the damage to the vehicle,\u201d Mounties said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Correction: RCMP initially said speed and alcohol were believed to be contributing factors in the collision. Police later removed that line from their press release.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=winnipeg.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating the death of a 17-year-old in a highway crash southeast of Winnipeg on Saturday. St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-769370","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\/769370","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=769370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}