{"id":883335,"date":"2026-09-04T18:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/883335\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:12:22","slug":"pedestrian-struck-by-garbage-truck-in-torontos-entertainment-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/883335\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian struck by garbage truck in Toronto&#8217;s Entertainment District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pedestrain sustained life-threatening injuries after being hit in the Adelaide Street West and Brant Street area <\/p>\n<p>A pedestrian was seriously injured on Friday morning after they were struck by a garbage truck in Toronto&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torontotoday.ca\/neighbourhoods\/entertainment-district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Entertainment District<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said the collision\u00a0occurred in the\u00a0Adelaide Street West and Brant Street area around 9:45 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services are currently at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics told\u00a0TorontoToday\u00a0the pedestrian sustained life-threatening injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Drivers in the area should expect traffic delays and have been encouraged by police to use alternative routes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eastbound lanes of\u00a0Adelaide Street West are closed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pedestrain sustained life-threatening injuries after being hit in the Adelaide Street West and Brant Street area A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,306511,3302],"class_list":["post-883335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-pedestrian-struckgarbage-truck-crashpedestrian-struck-by-garbage-truckadelaide-street-collisionbrant-st-collisiongarbage-truck-collisionpedestrian-injured-toronto","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883335","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=883335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}