{"id":167096,"date":"2025-09-24T22:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167096\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T22:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:56:08","slug":"teen-driver-accused-of-disobeying-red-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167096\/","title":{"rendered":"teen driver accused of disobeying red light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 17-year-old driver who struck a pedestrian in the city\u2019s east end <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/pedestrian-rushed-to-hospital-after-being-hit-by-suv-in-the-danforth\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/pedestrian-rushed-to-hospital-after-being-hit-by-suv-in-the-danforth\/\">on Tuesday night<\/a> allegedly did not stop at a red light, Toronto police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Emergency crews were called to the Riverdale neighbourhood at the intersection of Pape and Lipton avenues, north of Danforth Avenue, around 8:22 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64100\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64100\/\">Police said<\/a> the teen driver allegedly disobeyed the traffic signal and hit a 24-year-old man who was crossing Pape from the west side to the east side at Lipton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The pedestrian was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the driver initially left the scene but later returned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It is unknown what charges will be laid as the investigation is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are asking anyone with information to contact them at 416-808-1900 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old driver who struck a pedestrian in the city\u2019s east end on Tuesday night allegedly did not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-167096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167096","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=167096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}