{"id":519523,"date":"2026-03-07T03:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519523\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:25:08","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-north-york-hit-and-run-toronto-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519523\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed in North York hit-and-run: Toronto police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto police are investigating after a pedestrian was killed during a collision in North York Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were called to the area of Gerry Fitzgerald Drive and Steeles Avenue West just before 6:45 p.m. for reports of a two-vehicle collision.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say one vehicle struck a pole which fell on a pedestrian. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, one of the drivers fled the area before police arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have witnessed the crash is asked to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police are investigating after a pedestrian was killed during a collision in North York Friday evening. Emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-519523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519523","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=519523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}