{"id":797515,"date":"2026-07-12T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797515\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:00:09","slug":"pickering-man-dead-after-being-struck-by-suv-in-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797515\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickering man dead after being struck by SUV in parking lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Durham regional police are investigating after a 68-year-old man was struck by an SUV in a parking lot in Pickering late Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident happened shortly after 10 p.m. in the parking lot of 1105 Kingston Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say a black Ford SUV was travelling through the parking lot when it struck the pedestrian, trapping him underneath the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cResponding police officers lifted the Ford SUV to extract the pedestrian and performed life-saving measures,\u201d officials wrote in a news release. \u201cDespite the efforts of emergency services personnel, the pedestrian succumbed to his injuries at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials also say that the driver remained at the scene and is cooperating with investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cause of the collision remains under investigation and anyone with information is asked to come forward. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Durham regional police are investigating after a 68-year-old man was struck by an SUV in a parking lot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-797515","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\/797515","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=797515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}