{"id":642236,"date":"2026-05-02T03:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/642236\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T03:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:54:08","slug":"driver-killed-in-scarborough-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/642236\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed in Scarborough crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"c-overline b-overline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0May 01, 2026 at 8:48PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0May 01, 2026 at 8:25PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>Police probe a fatal crash in Scarborough after a car hit a tree near Goldhawk Trail and McCowan Road. The 20-year-old driver later died in hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A driver in his 20s after he crashed into a tree in Scarborough on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police say they got a call shortly after 7:30 p.m. for a single-vehicle collision in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/nndZnmoM7mAW1oNd7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/nndZnmoM7mAW1oNd7\">Goldhawk Trail and Hutchcroft Avenue<\/a>, west of McCowan Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver was transported to a trauma centre with life-threatening injuries, Toronto paramedics told CP24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police later said in an update that the man had been pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The circumstances that led to the crash are unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Updated:\u00a0May 01, 2026 at 8:48PM EDT Published:\u00a0May 01, 2026 at 8:25PM EDT Police probe a fatal crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-642236","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\/642236","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=642236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}