{"id":840453,"date":"2026-08-01T13:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840453\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T13:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:37:18","slug":"highway-400-one-person-dead-after-serious-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840453\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway 400: One person dead after serious crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One person is dead after a serious collision forced the closure of all northbound lanes on Highway 400 in North York, Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1593337022153717&amp;set=a.633667221454040\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1593337022153717&amp;set=a.633667221454040\">post to social media<\/a>, the OPP says the crash occurred on Highway 400 northbound at Finch Avenue, prompting emergency crews to close all lanes while they responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police have since confirmed to CP24 that one person was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/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\/08\/P4SXUOOD6FCQNOVEGHD67CWGZU.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>OPP Fatal collision shuts down northbound Hwy. 400 at Finch Avenue on Saturday August 1, 2026 (CP24 photo). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials note the highway is expected to remain closed for \u201ca few more hours\u201d as crews carry out cleanup operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drivers are being urged to use alternate routes and expect significant traffic delays in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say further information will be released as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person is dead after a serious collision forced the closure of all northbound lanes on Highway 400&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-840453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","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\/840453","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=840453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}