{"id":776127,"date":"2026-07-02T19:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776127\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T19:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:33:14","slug":"westbound-highway-402-section-closed-for-extended-period-due-to-unsafe-road-conditions-opp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776127\/","title":{"rendered":"Westbound Highway 402 section closed for \u2018extended period\u2019 due to unsafe road conditions: OPP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Highway 402 westbound has been closed between Oil Heritage Road and Mandaumin Road in the Municipality of Plympton-Wyoming, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) say.<\/p>\n

Shortly after 4:30 p.m. on Canada Day OPP officers responded to a report of unsafe road conditions on the highway and closed the westbound lanes, provincial police said in a news release. <\/p>\n

Early Thursday morning Const. Chris Ciliska told CBC Windsor that the affected section of the highway is \u201cexpected to be closed for [an] extended period for resurfacing.\u201d\u00a0He said there was a similar closure last summer in same area. <\/p>\n

Police are advising westbound motorists to exit at Oil Heritage Road and detour following London Line to Mandaumin Road to re-enter the highway.<\/p>\n

Motorists should plan an alternative route and allow for extra travel time.<\/p>\n

Police have not said if the closure is related to the heat wave affecting Sarnia and several other areas this week.<\/p>\n

An orange-level heat warning is in effect for Sarnia Thursday.<\/p>\n

Environment Canada said the hottest conditions are expected to continue through today, with maximum temperatures of 35 to 37 C expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Minimum temperatures of 21 to 25 C will provide little relief from the heat, the agency said.<\/p>\n

CBC News has reached out to the Ontario Ministry of Transportation for information about the closure and the expected time of reopening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-776127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776127","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=776127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}