{"id":543498,"date":"2026-03-18T01:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543498\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:23:20","slug":"toronto-police-officer-injured-in-collision-involving-stolen-vehicle-during-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543498\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police officer injured in collision involving stolen vehicle during traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Toronto police officer is in hospital after a collision involving a stolen vehicle during a traffic stop in North York on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say it happened near Sheppard Avenue West and Allen Road shortly after 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers were alerted by their automated licence plate recognition system about a stolen vehicle and tried to stop it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say the vehicle struck a police cruiser during an attempt to flee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver then abandoned the vehicle and ran away but was arrested shortly after, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One officer was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There is no word on what charges will be laid against the driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Toronto police officer is in hospital after a collision involving a stolen vehicle during a traffic stop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-543498","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\/543498","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=543498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}