{"id":793520,"date":"2026-07-10T20:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793520\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:25:09","slug":"2-pedestrians-fatally-struck-by-vehicle-in-scarborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793520\/","title":{"rendered":"2 pedestrians fatally struck by vehicle in Scarborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"c-overline b-overline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0July 10, 2026 at 4:07PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0July 10, 2026 at 2:29PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>Two pedestrians, a man and woman in their 60s, have been fatally struck by a vehicle in Scarborough <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man and a woman in their 60s are dead after being struck by a vehicle in Scarborough on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police and paramedics were called to the intersection of Birchmount Road and Lawrence Avenue East at 1:48 p.m. for a collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Paramedics told CTV News that two pedestrians were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/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\/07\/PFBGZCURUJFUXJL4YXDEP27O5A.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Fatal Scarborough collision Police are investigating a collision at the intersection of Birchmount Road and Lawrence Avenue East that left two people dead on Friday, July 10, 2026. (Simon Sheehan\/CP24) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Meanwhile, two women and a child who were in the vehicle were transported to the hospital, paramedics said. There is no immediate word on their conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the vehicle also hit and knocked down a pole.<\/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\/07\/MT6VMGIVHFFKBGWGRCGUFKAQM4.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Fatal Scarborough collision Police cruisers parked in the middle of the road as officers investigate a fatal collision at Birchmount Road and Lawrence Avenue East on Friday, July 10, 2026. (Simon Sheehan) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The circumstances surrounding the collision are not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The intersection is closed as police investigate the collision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Updated:\u00a0July 10, 2026 at 4:07PM EDT Published:\u00a0July 10, 2026 at 2:29PM EDT Two pedestrians, a man and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-793520","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\/793520","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=793520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}