{"id":911995,"date":"2026-09-27T20:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911995\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T20:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:36:14","slug":"1-dead-5-injured-in-head-on-crash-in-kemptville-ont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911995\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 5 injured in head-on crash in Kemptville, Ont."},"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>One person is dead and five more are injured \u2014 three critically \u2014 after a head-on crash Sunday involving two passenger vehicles in Kemptville, according to Ontario Provincial Police.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened on County Road 44 just north of Beach Road at around 9:30 a.m., said Leeds Grenville paramedic service deputy chief Jonathan Sylvester.<\/p>\n<p>Six patients were taken to the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital, with one transported by air, Sylvester said. <\/p>\n<p>Three patients were in critical condition. OPP Sgt. Erin Cranton said one person was pronounced dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>One vehicle had two occupants and the other had four, Sylvester said.<\/p>\n<p>County Road 44 was closed between Bedell and Beach roads as of shortly before 1 p.m., with OPP telling drivers to expect a prolonged closure.<\/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":911996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-911995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911995","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=911995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}