{"id":785410,"date":"2026-07-07T05:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785410\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:45:14","slug":"patricia-bay-highway-northbound-closed-after-serious-collision-in-saanich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785410\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Bay Highway northbound closed after serious collision in Saanich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Saanich Police Department is investigating a serious collision that has forced the closure of the northbound lanes of the Patricia Bay Highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said the crash occurred north of Quadra Street. As officers investigate, the northbound lanes of the highway are closed between Quadra Street and Royal Oak Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The closure is expected to remain in place for the foreseeable future, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Motorists are being asked to avoid the area, use alternate routes and expect delays while the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cheknews.ca\/author\/erin-haluschak\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/cheknews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cropped-2066f4cb-d5f1-4c01-87c0-e815f2215366.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tErin Haluschak has been a journalist in British Columbia since 2008. She has worked in print, magazines and online spaces and is a mentor with Digital Women Leaders through the Online News Association&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cheknews.ca\/author\/erin-haluschak\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Erin Haluschak\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saanich Police Department is investigating a serious collision that has forced the closure of the northbound lanes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-785410","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\/785410","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=785410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}