{"id":835039,"date":"2026-07-30T03:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835039\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T03:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:21:09","slug":"port-lands-collision-leaves-scooter-rider-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835039\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Lands collision leaves scooter rider dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A male e-scooter rider is dead following a collision with a minivan near Tommy Thompson Park in the city\u2019s Port Lands on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police said they got a call for the collision in the area of Leslie Street and Unwin Avenue at 7:41 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When emergency crews arrived, they located a male victim suffering from life-threatening injuries, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was rushed to a trauma centre, where he was later pronounced dead. His identity has not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver of the minivan remained at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Duty Insp. Dan Pravica said it is Toronto\u2019s 30th traffic fatality of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cause of the collision is unknown. Pravica told reporters that the rider was not wearing a helmet at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t want to speculate on exactly how the accident occurred. That will be determined by our officers from Traffic Services,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe are looking at collecting all the evidence. There were numerous witnesses nearby. Officers would be getting statements from them, collecting dashcam video and other video.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pravica urged anyone with information to contact Traffic Services at 416-808-1900.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A male e-scooter rider is dead following a collision with a minivan near Tommy Thompson Park in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-835039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","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\/835039","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=835039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}