{"id":615740,"date":"2026-04-20T03:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615740\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T03:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:34:10","slug":"boy6-dead-5-others-in-hospital-after-ontario-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615740\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy,6, dead, 5 others in hospital after Ontario collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A six-year-old boy has been pronounced dead and two others are fighting for their lives in hospital after a passenger vehicle and a pickup truck collided in Ontario Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The collision happened in Mulmur, Ont., about 100 kilometres northwest of Toronto. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ontario Provincial Police said they were called to the intersection of County Road 17 and County Road 19 following reports of a \u201cserious\u201d two-vehicle collision around 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, a passenger vehicle carrying six people and a pickup truck with a lone driver collided. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAs a result of the collision, a 6-year-old male was transported to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced deceased,\u201d OPP said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two others \u2013 a 30-year-old man and a two-year-old child \u2013 were air lifted to a Toronto-area trauma centre with life-threatening injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver of the pickup truck and additional passengers from the other vehicle were all transported to hospital with unknown injuries, OPP said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cause of the collision is not yet known. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators are asking anyone with information or dashcam footage to reach out to the OPP or to call Crime Stoppers anonymously. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A six-year-old boy has been pronounced dead and two others are fighting for their lives in hospital after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-615740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615740","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=615740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}