{"id":492288,"date":"2026-01-04T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492288\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T18:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:05:09","slug":"update-fatal-collision-on-highway-401-in-northumberland-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492288\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Fatal collision on Highway 401 in Northumberland County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/northumberland-opp.jpeg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"UPDATE: Fatal collision on Highway 401 in Northumberland County\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A 22-year-old man died in a collision late Saturday night on Highway 401 near Colborne.<\/p>\n<p>Northumberland OPP say emergency crews responded to a collision involving two vehicles and a pedestrian in the eastbound lanes of Highway 401 near Cochrane Road in Cramahe Township around 10:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that a pedestrian had been struck and a vehicle had been parked closed to the median in the westbound lanes.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0 22-year-old male from Chatham was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Highway 401 between between Big Apple Drive and County Road 30 was closed until about 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or has dashcam footage from the area at the time of the incident is asked to contact the OPP at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quintenews.com\/2026\/01\/04\/374186\/callto:1-888-310-1122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1-888-310-1122<\/a>\u00a0or Crime Stoppers\u00a0 at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quintenews.com\/2026\/01\/04\/374186\/callto:1-800-222-8477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1-800-222-8477<\/a>\u00a0or online at ontariocrimestoppers.ca. Ref: E260012392.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A 22-year-old man died in a collision late Saturday night on Highway 401 near Colborne. Northumberland OPP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":492289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4806,4807,2147,50,4804,4802,4805,4800,4801,4808,4803],"class_list":{"0":"post-492288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bancroft","9":"tag-brighton","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pec","13":"tag-picton","14":"tag-prince-edward-county","15":"tag-quinte","16":"tag-quinte-news","17":"tag-quinte-west","18":"tag-trenton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115838159006153075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}