{"id":835056,"date":"2026-07-30T03:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835056\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T03:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:31:10","slug":"1-dead-after-crash-between-e-scooter-motor-vehicle-near-tommy-thompson-park-toronto-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835056\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead after crash between e-scooter, motor vehicle near Tommy Thompson Park: Toronto police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rider of an e-scooter died in hospital after a collision near Toronto&#8217;s waterfront Wednesday evening, police say.<\/p>\n<p>E-scooter rider died in hospital after collision near city waterfront Wednesday evening, police say<\/p>\n<p>CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Jul 29, 2026 9:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"A Toronto police officer walks by a toppled e-scooter on an empty city street. There are only trees and a cement barricade in the background. It is evening time in the summer.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785382270_357_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Toronto police said the male rider of an e-scooter died in hospital after the collision in the city&#8217;s east end. (Jacob Estrin\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>One person is dead after a collision involving an e-scooter and motor vehicle near Tommy Thompson Park Wednesday evening, Toronto police say.<\/p>\n<p>The fatal collision happened just before 7:45 p.m. in the area of Leslie Street and Unwin Avenue near the city&#8217;s waterfront in the east end, police said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>The rider of the e-scooter, identified only as male, was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. In an update just after 9 p.m., police said he had died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The driver remained on the scene, police said, and the intersection of Leslie Street and Unwin Avenue has been closed for the investigation.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto The rider of an e-scooter died in hospital after a collision near Toronto&#8217;s waterfront Wednesday evening, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-835056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835056","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=835056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}