{"id":776817,"date":"2026-07-03T03:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776817\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T03:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:28:15","slug":"highway-427-fatal-collision-closes-northbound-lanes-at-finch-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776817\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway 427 fatal collision closes northbound lanes at Finch Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0July 02, 2026 at 9:56PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0July 02, 2026 at 3:35PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An 81-year-old man is dead after a single-vehicle crash on Highway 427 in Etobicoke on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ontario Provincial Police said the vehicle slammed into a guardrail in the northbound lanes of the highway near Finch Avenue West around 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 81-year-old who was from Mississauga was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Two other occupants of the vehicle were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cause of the collision is unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police closed all northbound lanes of the highway at Finch Avenue for the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They are asking anyone with information, including dashcam footage, to contact investigators at 1-888-310-1122.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0July 02, 2026 at 9:56PM EDT Published:\u00a0July 02, 2026 at 3:35PM EDT An 81-year-old man is dead after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-776817","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\/776817","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=776817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}