{"id":875307,"date":"2026-08-29T03:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/875307\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T03:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:06:15","slug":"man-in-his-60s-dead-after-two-vehicles-collide-in-brampton-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/875307\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in his 60s dead after two vehicles collide in Brampton, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man in his 60s is dead after two vehicles collided in Brampton on Friday, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers responded to the area of Queen Street E. and Delta Park Boulevard shortly before 1:30 p.m., Peel Regional Police said in a post on social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A tractor trailer was stopped and waiting to turn left onto Delta Park Boulevard, when a second vehicle struck from behind &#8220;for some unknown reason,&#8221; according to police spokesperson Const. Laurie McCann.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We&#8217;re unsure at this time how this occurred,&#8221; McCann said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver of the second vehicle was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries, but later died, McCann said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Each vehicle had only one occupant, she added. The driver of the tractor trailer was shaken up but not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Members of Peel police&#8217;s major collision bureau are investigating, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The intersection remains closed, police said. Queen Street E. is closed westbound at Goreway Drive and one eastbound lane is closed from Airport Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 60s is dead after two vehicles collided in Brampton on Friday, police say. Officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48,226205,222685,130193,147733,303601],"class_list":["post-875307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-const","tag-laurie-mccann","tag-mccann","tag-peel","tag-queen-street-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875307","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=875307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}