{"id":793339,"date":"2026-07-10T18:35:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793339\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:35:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:35:27","slug":"2-dead-after-being-struck-by-vehicle-in-scarborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793339\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead after being struck by vehicle in Scarborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people are dead after being struck by a vehicle in Scarborough on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were called to the area of Birchmount Road and Lawrence Avenue East just before 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics say two pedestrians were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>They also say three people \u2014 two adults and a child \u2014 who were in the vehicle involved were taken to hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>No further details were immediately available.<\/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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are dead after being struck by a vehicle in Scarborough on Friday afternoon. Emergency crews were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-793339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793339","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=793339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}