{"id":813990,"date":"2026-07-20T10:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813990\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:56:15","slug":"uber-passenger-critically-injured-in-etobicoke-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813990\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber passenger critically injured in Etobicoke crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto police say a rideshare passenger is in critical condition after the Uber they were travelling in left the roadway and slammed into a pole in Etobicoke early Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The single-vehicle collision happened just before 1:30 a.m. on The Queensway west of South Kingsway, where officers were called to reports of a serious single\u2011vehicle crash involving an Uber travelling westbound.<\/p>\n<p>Police tell 680 NewsRadio the rear passenger \u2014 the customer riding in the back seat \u2014 suffered life\u2011threatening injuries and was rushed to hospital. The driver was not hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are still working to determine what caused the vehicle to veer off the road, including whether speed may have played a role.<\/p>\n<p>The impact has left the westbound lanes of The Queensway closed from South Kingsway as collision reconstruction officers examined the scene and crews worked to clear debris.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not released the age or gender of the injured passenger. The investigation is ongoing.<\/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":"Toronto police say a rideshare passenger is in critical condition after the Uber they were travelling in left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-813990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813990","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=813990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}