{"id":123682,"date":"2025-09-06T06:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123682\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T06:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:49:09","slug":"woman-24-dies-after-being-struck-by-vehicle-in-scarborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123682\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 24, dies after being struck by vehicle in Scarborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto police says a 24-year-old woman has died after being struck by a vehicle in Scarborough on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were called to Steeles Avenue East and Midland Avenue around 5p.m.,  for reports of a person struck by a vehicle. Paramedics attempted to perform lifesaving measures but the woman was pronounced dead on the scene. <\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old male driver of the vehicle remained at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an incredibly heartbreaking incident and our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time,\u201d said Duty Insp. Errol Watson to reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5621-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4641365\"  \/>A 59-year-old man was driving a 2014 Subaru Forester when he struck a 24-year-old woman crossing the road on a pedestrian crosswalk. (Karim Islam\/CITYNEWS)<\/p>\n<p>Police have not specified if there will be charges pressed against the driver.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who was in the area between 4:45 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. and has information related to the collision is asked to contact investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police says a 24-year-old woman has died after being struck by a vehicle in Scarborough on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-123682","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\/123682","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=123682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}