{"id":844852,"date":"2026-08-03T17:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/844852\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:55:09","slug":"2-women-dead-after-highway-401-collision-near-gananoque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/844852\/","title":{"rendered":"2 women dead after Highway 401 collision near Gananoque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Two women have died Monday after a two-vehicle collision on Highway 401 near Gananoque, Ont., according to the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). <\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews responded to the collision in the westbound lanes shortly after 12:30 a.m., police reported later Monday morning in a press release. <\/p>\n<p>OPP said that their intitial investigation indicates that a transport truck was stopped, with safety cones out, on the right shoulder and then was struck by a passenger vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>Two women in the passenger vehicle, a 47-year-old and a 73-year-old, were pronounced dead at the scene, said police, adding that the driver of their vehicle reported no serious injuries but was taken to hospital for assessment. <\/p>\n<p>The driver of the transport truck did not report any injuries and was not transported to hospital, police said.<\/p>\n<p>OPP asked anyone who witnessed the collision or may have dash camera footage of the area to contact the Leeds County OPP at 1-888-310-1122.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-844852","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\/844852","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=844852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}