{"id":685334,"date":"2026-05-22T01:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/685334\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T01:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:11:21","slug":"brampton-crash-vehicle-fleeing-peel-police-hits-cruiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/685334\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton crash: Vehicle fleeing Peel police hits cruiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency crews, including a police K-9 unit, were on the scene of dramatic collision in Brampton. CP24&#8217;s Melissa Duggan from Sandalwood Pkwy and Hurontario St. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Peel police cruiser was involved in a collision with a vehicle that attempted to flee from officers in Brampton early Thursday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The collision happened shortly after 1 a.m. in the vicinity of Van Kirk Drive and Sandalwood Parkway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say that officers initially attempted to stop the vehicle in the area of Rutherford Road and Orenda Road, however it fled the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say there was not a pursuit of the vehicle following the attempted stop. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In an email to CP24, officers say they later located the vehicle near Van Kirk Drive and Sandalwood Parkway, where they say crash with the cruiser took place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The circumstances surrounding the collision remain unclear.<\/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\/JUJA5543GZDSRKGO2EUKQHEXCU.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>PRP Police investigating after overnight collision where vehicle crashed into one of their cruisers on Thursday May 21, 2026 (PRP photo). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Peel paramedics say one adult was assessed at the scene and transported to a local hospital in stable condition. Police described the driver\u2019s injuries as non-life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Road closures will remain in effect \u201cfor the foreseeable\u201d on Van Kirk Drive between Cedarvalley Boulevard and Sandalwood Parkway, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews, including a police K-9 unit, were on the scene of dramatic collision in Brampton. CP24&#8217;s Melissa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[712,51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-685334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-apple-news","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685334","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=685334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}