{"id":862966,"date":"2026-08-18T21:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862966\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T21:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:34:16","slug":"single-vehicle-crash-causes-power-outage-in-brampton-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862966\/","title":{"rendered":"Single-vehicle crash causes power outage in Brampton &#8211; Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A single-vehicle crash knocked over a number of hydro poles in <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/brampton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brampton<\/a>, Ont., Tuesday morning, causing thousands of homes and businesses to lose power.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Peel police were called to the scene on Rosedale Avenue just off Main Street North around 1:15 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>On scene, they found toppled hydro poles and downed power lines.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was treated for minor injuries and arrested for suspected impaired operation.<\/p>\n<p>At its peak, Alectra Utilities said more than 4,300 homes and businesses were without power due to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Around noon, more than 700 customers were still without power.<\/p>\n<p>As of 4:30 p.m., Alectra said roughly 83 customers were still waiting to get their lights turned back on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A single-vehicle crash knocked over a number of hydro poles in Brampton, Ont., Tuesday morning, causing thousands of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48,2169,44,35243],"class_list":["post-862966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-news","tag-peel-regional-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862966","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=862966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}