{"id":788975,"date":"2026-07-08T20:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/788975\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:30:22","slug":"opp-confirm-highway-37-collision-was-fatal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/788975\/","title":{"rendered":"OPP confirm Highway 37 collision was fatal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/opp-update.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"OPP confirm Highway 37 collision was fatal\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Central Hastings OPP have confirmed that the single-vehicle collision that shut down Highway 37 on Tuesday was fatal.<\/p>\n<p>In a release, OPP say they  responded to the collision on Highway 37 near Phillipston Road just after 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigation by police indicates the driver lost control of the vehicle, which then left the roadway. <\/p>\n<p>The driver was subsequently ejected. <\/p>\n<p>Police say that the driver, who was the sole occupant of the vehicle, was pronounced deceased at the scene and has been identified as a 30-year-old resident of Belleville.<\/p>\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">A section of Highway 37 remained closed until approximately 4:20 p.m. while members of the OPP conducted their investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The investigation continues with assistance from the OPP Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement (TIME) team.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this collision is asked to contact the Central Hastings OPP at 1-888-310-1122.<\/p>\n<p>Should you wish to remain anonymous, you may contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or submit a tip online at ontariocrimestoppers.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Central Hastings OPP have confirmed that the single-vehicle collision that shut down Highway 37 on Tuesday was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3735,3736,49,48,44,3733,3731,3734,3729,3730,3737,3732],"class_list":["post-788975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-bancroft","tag-brighton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-pec","tag-picton","tag-prince-edward-county","tag-quinte","tag-quinte-news","tag-quinte-west","tag-trenton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788975","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=788975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}