{"id":579677,"date":"2026-04-03T13:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579677\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:53:19","slug":"brampton-street-closed-due-to-scooter-accident-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579677\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton street closed due to scooter accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0April 02, 2026 at 3:27PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0April 02, 2026 at 11:20AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man in his 60s is seriously injured after hitting a concrete curb on a motorized scooter in Brampton on Thursday morning, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Peel Regional Police said the incident took place on Vodden Street East and Garfield Crescent shortly before 9:45 a.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Media relations officer Taylor Halfyard said the man was travelling eastbound on Vodden Street when he appears to have struck a curb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe driver sustained serious injuries as a result of that collision,\u201d Halfyard said, adding that it appears the man was wearing a helmet at the time of the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">While the driver of the vehicle was initially transported to local hospital, he\u2019s since been transferred to a trauma centre, where Halfyard said he\u2019s in \u201ccritical, life-threatening condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vodden Street East between Garfield Crescent and Cumberland Drive was closed as investigators surveyed the scene but all roadways have since reopened. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">COLLISION:<br \/>-Vodden St E and Garfield Cres<br \/>-Single vehicle collision<br \/>-Male was on a scooter<br \/>-male is his 60&#8217;s transported to hospital with serious injuries<br \/>-ROAD CLOSURES:<br \/>-Vodden St E closed between Garfield Cres and Cumberland Drive<br \/>-expect delays in the area<br \/>-C\/R 9:42 am\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peel Regional Police (@PeelPolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeelPolice\/status\/2039714220388884802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0April 02, 2026 at 3:27PM EDT Published:\u00a0April 02, 2026 at 11:20AM EDT A man in his 60s is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[712,51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-579677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-apple-news","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579677","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=579677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}