{"id":673767,"date":"2026-05-16T16:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/673767\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T16:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:36:11","slug":"woman-40-dead-after-being-struck-by-vehicle-following-hwy-401-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/673767\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 40, dead after being struck by vehicle following Hwy. 401 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Mississauga woman is dead following a crash on Highway 401 late Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial police say just before midnight, an SUV and another vehicle collided in the eastbound lanes of the highway, east of Eglinton Avenue West near Pearson International Airport. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the initial collision, the driver of the SUV exited the vehicle and was subsequently struck in a secondary incident involving another passenger vehicle,\u201d police said in a release on Saturday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Paramedics transported the woman to a trauma centre with life-threatening injuries, where she was later pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p>Police have identified her only as a 40-year-old woman from Mississauga. <\/p>\n<p>There was no indication if anyone else would be charged in connection with the crash. <\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=toronto.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Mississauga woman is dead following a crash on Highway 401 late Friday night. Provincial police say just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-673767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/673767","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=673767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}