{"id":658796,"date":"2026-05-09T19:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658796\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T19:44:08","slug":"road-closed-2-car-crash-shuts-down-section-of-street-in-brampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658796\/","title":{"rendered":"ROAD CLOSED: 2-car crash shuts down section of street in Brampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A two-car crash in Brampton early Saturday afternoon has closed down a section of the road to traffic, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Peel Regional Police said one person was taken to hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening in the aftermath of the collision, which occurred shortly before 1:30 p.m. at McMurchy Avenue South and Elgin Drive, a few blocks north of Steeles Avenue West.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both drivers who were involved in the crash remained on scene, police said, adding one was subsequently hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>Elgin Drive, between Main Street and McMurchy Avenue South, has been shut down to traffic, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Police urge motorists to avoid the area until the investigation has been completed on scene.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/editorial-guidelines\" class=\"editorial-guidelines-link d-block mb-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            INsauga&#8217;s Editorial Standards and Policies        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\tWIN A $100 GIFT CARD<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to INsauga\u2019s daily email newsletter for a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A two-car crash in Brampton early Saturday afternoon has closed down a section of the road to traffic,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-658796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658796","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=658796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}