{"id":277024,"date":"2025-11-11T20:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277024\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:19:09","slug":"north-york-collision-driver-dies-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277024\/","title":{"rendered":"North York collision: driver dies in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man critically injured in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/11\/07\/driver-critically-injured-in-crash-with-construction-vehicle-in-north-york-police\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/11\/07\/driver-critically-injured-in-crash-with-construction-vehicle-in-north-york-police\/\">rear-end collision between an SUV and a tractor in North York<\/a> last week has died, Toronto police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The collision happened shortly after 2:40 a.m. on Friday in the area of Weston Road and Fenmar Drive, north of Finch Avenue West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said a 40-year-old man was reportedly driving a Mitsubishi RVR northbound on Weston Road at a high rate of speed when he slammed into the back of a backhoe tractor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After being extricated, the Mitsubishi driver was rushed to a trauma centre with life-threatening injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 46-year-old driver of the tractor sustained minor injuries and was also hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Monday, the Mitsubishi driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64530\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64530\/\">was pronounced dead in the hospital.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the investigation into the collision remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man critically injured in a rear-end collision between an SUV and a tractor in North York last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-277024","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\/277024","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=277024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}