{"id":828940,"date":"2026-07-27T09:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828940\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T09:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:55:15","slug":"toronto-police-search-for-witnesses-after-boy-seriously-injured-in-e-scooter-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828940\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police search for witnesses after boy seriously injured in e-scooter collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An 11-year-old boy is seriously injured after losing control of his electric scooter and crashing into a parked van, Toronto police say. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened shortly before 4:45 p.m. on Tuesday, in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Rowan+Ave+%26+Dynevor+Rd,+York,+ON+M6E+3X1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Rowan+Ave+%26+Dynevor+Rd,+York,+ON+M6E+3X1\/\">Dynevor Road and Rowan Avenue<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the boy was heading northbound on Dynevor Road at the time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The circumstances surrounding the collision are unclear, but officials said he was brought to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66518\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66518\/\">news release issued Sunday<\/a>, police said a silver Dodge Ram pick-up truck was seen driving in the area at the time of the collision. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators are looking to speak to the driver, and are currently looking for the owner of the parked silver van.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are asking anyone with information or footage of the area at the time of the collision to contact them, or contact Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 11-year-old boy is seriously injured after losing control of his electric scooter and crashing into a parked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-828940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828940","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=828940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}