{"id":796382,"date":"2026-07-12T04:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796382\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T04:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:26:20","slug":"highway-401-eastbound-lanes-closed-following-multi-vehicle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796382\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway 401 eastbound lanes closed following multi-vehicle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"c-overline b-overline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/canada\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0July 11, 2026 at 2:04PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>A crash involving eight vehicles caused Highway 401&#8217;s eastbound lanes near Townline Road in Cambridge, Ont. to close around noon Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A crash has closed the eastbound lanes of Highway 401 near Townline Road in Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OPP confirmed to CTV News in an email that emergency services responded around 12:30 to a collision involving eight vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LCOA4AJFHRHJ5OBDQBER2T4X7Y.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>401 crash firefighter A firefighter on the scene of a crash involving eight vehicles on Highway 401 near Townline Road in Cambridge, Ont. on July 11, 2026. (Submitted: Rob Weir) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cause of the crash is currently under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One person was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries, with the extent of other injuries unknown. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Y2YQTAD4HZA33FOSVBPFT6WPOU.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>401 Crash ORNGE An Ornge ambulance touches ground waiting to airlift one person to hospital following a crash involving eight vehicles on Highway 401 near Townline Road in Cambridge, Ont. on July 11, 2026. (Submitted: Rob Weir) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drivers should expect heavy traffic delays in the area and plan an alternate route if possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators are on the scene as the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada Published:\u00a0July 11, 2026 at 2:04PM EDT A crash involving eight vehicles caused Highway 401&#8217;s eastbound lanes near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-796382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796382","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=796382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}