{"id":538134,"date":"2026-03-15T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/538134\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:24:08","slug":"driver-flees-after-crashing-into-utility-pole-on-bathurst-street-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/538134\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver flees after crashing into utility pole on Bathurst Street: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto police are searching for a driver who fled the scene of a single-vehicle collision early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities were called to the area of Bathurst Street and Avenal Drive just after 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a driver crashed into a utility pole near the Beth Tzedec Congregation synagogue and then abandoned the vehicle and fled the area on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Footage from the scene shows an SUV cordoned off with police tape.<\/p>\n<p>No other details were immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police are searching for a driver who fled the scene of a single-vehicle collision early Sunday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-538134","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\/538134","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=538134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}