{"id":770240,"date":"2026-06-30T03:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770240\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T03:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:35:18","slug":"motorcyclist-killed-in-scarborough-crash-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770240\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist killed in Scarborough crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say a motorcyclist was pronounced dead after a collision in the Neilson Rd. and Tapscott Rd. area of Scarborough. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A motorcyclist has died after a collision in Scarborough Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened near the intersection of Neilson Road and Tapscott Road shortly after 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police say a male motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Speaking to reporters near the scene of the crash, Toronto Police Duty Insp. Errol Watson said the motorcyclist was travelling southbound on Neilson Road when he was struck by a vehicle.<\/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\/06\/TVEBIJDQSFBUFA6KJFU3RXJ6MY.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Scarborough crash June 29 Duty Insp Errol Watson spoke to reporters near the scene of the crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cEmergency services arrived on scene and performed life-saving measures. Unfortunately, the male motorcyclist was pronounced deceased,\u201d Watson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police have not yet identified the motorcyclist who died in the collision, Watson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis is an incredibly heartbreaking event, and our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Watson said police are still working to determine the cause of the crash and it is not yet known whether speed was a factor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The intersection remains closed as police investigate, those in the area are being asked to consider alternate routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a motorcyclist was pronounced dead after a collision in the Neilson Rd. and Tapscott Rd. area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-770240","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\/770240","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=770240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}