{"id":650804,"date":"2026-05-06T04:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650804\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T04:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:37:12","slug":"toronto-collision-leaves-motorcyclist-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650804\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto collision leaves motorcyclist dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police give an update on a fatal collision which saw a motorcycle collide with an SUV and leave the driver trapped underneath. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A motorcyclist is dead following a collision in Toronto\u2019s Roncesvalles Village neighbourhood on Tuesday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police said a motorcycle collided with an SUV near Roncesvalles and Howard Park avenues at around 4:10 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Duty Insp. Peter Wallace told reporters that the motorcycle rider, a man in his 20s, got trapped underneath the SUV after the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After being extricated, the rider, police said, was rushed to the hospital. where they were later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wallace said the driver of the SUV, a man in his 40s, remained at the scene and is co-operating with the investigation.<\/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\/05\/VZQXINUZZRDVXDWXAKQGZOVGDQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"600\"\/>Motorcycle collision A motorcycle is lying on the side of the road following a collision in Toronto&#8217;s west end on May 5, 2026. (Andrew Brennan) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He noted that the SUV was stopped when the motorcycle crashed into it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The circumstances surrounding the collision are under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt appears at this time that speed might have been a factor, and also the fact that it was raining and the road may have been wet,\u201d Wallace said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Howard Park Avenue is closed at Dundas Street, and police are warning drivers to use \u201calternate routes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police give an update on a fatal collision which saw a motorcycle collide with an SUV and leave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-650804","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\/650804","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=650804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}