{"id":844114,"date":"2026-08-03T09:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T09:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/844114\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T09:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T09:39:08","slug":"man-dies-after-being-pinned-under-vehicle-near-veld-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/844114\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after being pinned under vehicle near VELD festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0August 02, 2026 at 9:48PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0August 02, 2026 at 6:09PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man has died after being pinned down by a vehicle at a makeshift parking lot near Downsview Park during the VELD Music Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66595\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a release<\/a> put out on Sunday, Toronto police said the 29-year-old succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2026\/08\/01\/man-fighting-for-life-after-being-pinned-under-pickup-truck-in-parking-lot\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2026\/08\/01\/man-fighting-for-life-after-being-pinned-under-pickup-truck-in-parking-lot\/\">On Friday<\/a>, Toronto paramedics were flagged down at about 11:30 p.m., after receiving reports that a pedestrian who had been lying in the grass was struck and pinned beneath a pickup truck in a parking area being used by festival attendees. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 57-year-old driver remained at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The pedestrian was initially transported to a Toronto trauma centre in critical, life-threatening condition, but died on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are asking any residents, businesses or drivers in the area who may have security or dashcam footage of the incident to contact investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from Jermaine Wilson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0August 02, 2026 at 9:48PM EDT Published:\u00a0August 02, 2026 at 6:09PM EDT A man has died after being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-844114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844114","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=844114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844114\/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=844114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}