{"id":518279,"date":"2026-03-06T14:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518279\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:13:08","slug":"toronto-police-investigating-fiery-etobicoke-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518279\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police investigating fiery Etobicoke car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating after no one was found at the scene of a fiery crash, where a vehicle collided with a tree in north Etobicoke. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two people have been arrested after a vehicle crashed into a pole and burst into flames in Etobicoke early Friday morning, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened near Albion Road and Westmore Drive just after 5 a.m. Police said the occupants of the vehicle fled the scene after the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto Fire Services said when they arrived at the scene the vehicle was fully engulfed in flames. The fire was eventually put out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers later located two people and placed them under arrest. It\u2019s unclear what charges they\u2019re facing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One person was also transported to hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Roads were closed in the area, but have since reopened.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">COLLISION:<br \/>Albion Rd &amp; Westmore Dr<br \/>5:03am<br \/>&#8211; reports of a vehicle into a pole that caught fire <br \/>&#8211; occupants of the vehicle fled the scene <br \/>&#8211; officers o\/s<br \/>&#8211; two people have been located and arrested <br \/>&#8211; once person transported to hospital with minor injuries<br \/>&#8211; Albion Rd is closed\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPSOperations\/status\/2029891932395044888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after no one was found at the scene of a fiery crash, where a vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-518279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518279","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=518279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}