{"id":124240,"date":"2025-09-06T12:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/124240\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:39:09","slug":"woman-24-dead-after-being-hit-by-driver-in-scarborough-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/124240\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 24, dead after being hit by driver in Scarborough, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">A 24-year-old woman has died after she was hit by a driver\u00a0in a Scarborough intersection on Friday evening, Toronto police say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The\u00a0collision happened at Steeles Avenue E. and Midland Avenue at about 5 p.m., said police spokesperson Duty Insp. Errol Watson.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The driver, a 59-year-old man, remained at the scene and is co-operating with police. There&#8217;s no word on charges.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;This is an incredibly heartbreaking incident and our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time,&#8221; Watson told reporters on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The intersection, which was closed as police investigated, has reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 24-year-old woman has died after she was hit by a driver\u00a0in a Scarborough intersection on Friday evening,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-124240","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\/124240","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=124240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}