{"id":566982,"date":"2026-03-28T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566982\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:28:08","slug":"father-2-kids-critically-hurt-in-markham-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566982\/","title":{"rendered":"Father, 2 kids critically hurt in Markham crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A father and his child remain in critical condition after a crash in the Markham area, and a second child in the car was also seriously injured. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A father and his two young children were injured, two of them critically, in a head-on collision in Markham on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/YRP\/status\/2037719709680889918?s=20\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/YRP\/status\/2037719709680889918?s=20\">crash happened<\/a> at around 4:45 p.m. in the area of Major Mackenzie Drive and McCowan Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In an update to CP24 Saturday morning, York Regional Police say a 42-year-old man and one of his children remain in critical condition following the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A second child, also under the age of 10, suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/NF57D2APKZAEFCT7M7UEWDQOTY.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Markham collision Emergency crews are on the scene of a two-vehicle collision in Markham on Friday, March 27, 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say the crash involved two vehicles in a head-on collision, adding that no one in the other vehicle was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The circumstances that led to the collision remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from CP24\u2019s Bryann Aguilar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A father and his child remain in critical condition after a crash in the Markham area, and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-566982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566982","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=566982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}