{"id":134813,"date":"2025-09-10T22:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/134813\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T22:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:59:09","slug":"toddler-dead-several-others-injured-as-vehicle-crashes-into-richmond-hill-child-care-centre-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/134813\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler dead, several others injured as vehicle crashes into Richmond Hill child care centre &#8211; Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A one-and-a-half-year-old toddler has died and several others are injured after a car drove through the window of a child care centre in <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/richmond-hill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond Hill<\/a>, Ont., on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>York Regional Police said a car drove through the window of the building near Yonge Street and Nottingham Drive around 3 p.m., striking several staff and young children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe centre was open at the time, with numerous employees and children inside,\u201d Const. Kevin Nebrija explained on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756402221_230_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Seven children aged between 1.5 and three years old were hit by the vehicle, as well as three staff members. A 1.5-year-old boy was pronounced dead, while another child remains in serious condition, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The other children and staff who were struck have non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>York Regional Police said a man in his 70s had been arrested at the scene, though they currently believe the events were a tragic accident.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11404948\/canadians-skipping-life-insurance\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757545149_97_Piggy-Bank-life-insurance.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tNearly half of Canadians are skipping life insurance. Here\u2019s why\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11404607\/tom-phillips-campsite-children-photos\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757545149_859_tom-phillips-campsite13.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPolice share 1st photos of NZ fugitive father\u2019s campsite, where he hid with kids\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformation right now has led us to determine this was not a deliberate act,\u201d Nebrija said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vehicle was in the parking lot at the time and, for reasons unknown, drove through the front of the window. We can appreciate that this is a very alarming call for parents to receive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All children and staff were accounted for, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Toronto<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A one-and-a-half-year-old toddler has died and several others are injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,43,44,60919,41,39,42,40,65675],"class_list":["post-134813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-canada","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-richmond-hill","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-york-regional-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134813","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=134813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}