{"id":840925,"date":"2026-08-01T18:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840925\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:58:08","slug":"toronto-man-fighting-for-life-after-being-pinned-under-pickup-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840925\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto man fighting for life after being pinned under pickup truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"c-overline b-overline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0August 01, 2026 at 1:25PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>A 29-year-old man laying in the grass of a make-shift parking lot near Veld Festival sustained life-threatening injuries when he was struck by a car. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man is in life-threatening condition after he was run over and pinned beneath a pickup truck in a makeshift parking lot near Downsview Park during the VELD Music Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto paramedics were flagged down at about 11:30 p.m. Friday night after receiving reports that a pedestrian had been struck and pinned beneath a pickup truck in a parking area being used by festival attendees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The adult male was transported to a Toronto trauma centre in critical, life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police tell CP24 the driver remained at the scene and is co-operating with investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the investigation is active and ongoing. No information on potential charges has been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Published:\u00a0August 01, 2026 at 1:25PM EDT A 29-year-old man laying in the grass of a make-shift parking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-840925","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\/840925","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=840925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}