{"id":874987,"date":"2026-08-28T20:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/874987\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T20:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:58:18","slug":"brampton-crash-driver-in-his-60s-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/874987\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton crash: driver in his 60s dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0August 28, 2026 at 4:53p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0August 28, 2026 at 2:59p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man in his 60s is dead after a van and a truck collided in Brampton on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Peel police said the collision happened at the intersection of Queen Street East and Delta Park Boulevard, east of Airport Road, shortly before 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Based on images from the scene, it appears the van crashed into the back of a truck.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Z3NE2PIQQZH6LO2XALV3RVPRCU.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Brampton crash A van crashed into the back of a truck on Queen Street East, near Airport Road, in Brampton on Friday, Aug. 28, 2026. (CTV News) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said one driver was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. He was pronounced dead shortly after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The other driver remained at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The circumstances that led to the collision are unknown. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police closed the intersection for the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0August 28, 2026 at 4:53p.m. EDT Published:\u00a0August 28, 2026 at 2:59p.m. EDT A man in his 60s is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-874987","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\/874987","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=874987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}