{"id":790245,"date":"2026-07-09T09:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/790245\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T09:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:51:22","slug":"brampton-driver-caught-on-cam-nearly-hitting-firefighter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/790245\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton driver caught on cam nearly hitting firefighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A driver captured on video driving through a crash scene in Brampton, Ont., and almost hitting a firefighter last month has been charged, Peel police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident happened on June 27 in the area of Kennedy Road and Sandalwood Parkway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In the video, which was shared by police, a pickup truck enters the intersection, which is blocked by fire trucks and other emergency vehicles due to a collision, and nearly strikes a firefighter, who scampers out of the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The truck then hits a police cruiser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said no one was injured in the incident and the pickup truck driver remained at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver, who police said is an older gentleman, has since been charged with careless driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSurprisingly, he wasn\u2019t drunk and it doesn\u2019t appear he intended to hurt anybody here,\u201d Peel police media relations officer Tyler Bell said in a video posted on social media on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis is some pretty scary stuff and it\u2019s inexcusable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bell reminded drivers to pay attention when they encounter a crash scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver captured on video driving through a crash scene in Brampton, Ont., and almost hitting a firefighter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[712,51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-790245","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\/790245","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=790245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}