{"id":64930,"date":"2025-08-12T21:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64930\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:33:09","slug":"pedestrian-dead-in-milton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64930\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dead in Milton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0August 12, 2025 at 3:12PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0August 12, 2025 at 1:32PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A pedestrian is dead after being hit by a truck in Milton on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Emergency crews were called to a parking lot near Scott Boulevard and Derry Road for a serious collision, Halton police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cUnfortunately, and tragically, that pedestrian has been pronounced deceased. Our collision reconstruction unit is attending the scene and conducting an investigation,\u201d Halton police media relations officer Const. Ryan Anderson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver of the truck remained at the scene. The circumstances that led to the collision are unclear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201c(Investigators) are getting video from the institutions here. They are speaking to witnesses, and they\u2019re going to determine exactly what took place,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He noted that it\u2019s too early to know whether criminal charges will be laid.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tragically, an adult male pedestrian is deceased. The HRPS Collision Reconstruction Unit is attending the scene to investigate.<br \/>Driver remained on scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Halton Police (@HaltonPolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HaltonPolice\/status\/1955319018937626633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0August 12, 2025 at 3:12PM EDT Published:\u00a0August 12, 2025 at 1:32PM EDT A pedestrian is dead after being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-64930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64930","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=64930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}