{"id":124575,"date":"2025-09-06T15:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T15:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/124575\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T15:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T15:58:07","slug":"car-hits-pole-catches-fire-in-etobicoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/124575\/","title":{"rendered":"Car hits pole, catches fire in Etobicoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police say one person was injured after a vehicle struck a pole and caught fire in Etobicoke overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In an email to CP24.com, police say officers were called to the area of The Queensway and North Queen Street around midnight for reports of a two-vehicle collision. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One of the vehicles struck a pole, which was knocked down, before catching fire, police noted. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MIBKDYIFHJFIVJZMD4GCTHM23U.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>TPS Toronto police investigating a vehicle that struck a pole and caught fire in Etobicoke overnight (CP24 photo). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In addition, one person was taken to hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cause of the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police say one person was injured after a vehicle struck a pole and caught fire in Etobicoke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-124575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124575","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=124575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}