{"id":902822,"date":"2026-09-20T11:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902822\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:38:15","slug":"dvp-collision-causes-heavy-traffic-2-people-injured-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902822\/","title":{"rendered":"DVP collision causes heavy traffic, 2 people injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0September 19, 2026 at 9:50p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0September 19, 2026 at 8:11p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A multi-vehicle crash brought traffic to a standstill on portions of the Don Valley Parkway and Gardiner Expressway in downtown Toronto on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Emergency crews were called to the northbound lanes of the DVP north of Gerrard Street East shortly before 7 p.m. for a five-vehicle collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police said two people were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The crash resulted in the closure of all but one northbound lane at Gerrard Street East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That had traffic also backed up on the eastbound Gardiner Expressway.<\/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\/09\/1789904295_618_KRBR3VGQCBE5NJ6VGQVN63TGI4.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Gardiner traffic Heavy traffic in the eastbound lanes of the Gardiner Expressway due to several northbound lanes on the DVP being blocked because of a crash on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026. (Toronto MTC) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they received reports of vehicles doing U-turns and driving the wrong way on the Gardiner Expressway eastbound on-ramp from Yonge Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cObey the rules of the road at all times,\u201d police said in a post on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0September 19, 2026 at 9:50p.m. EDT Published:\u00a0September 19, 2026 at 8:11p.m. EDT A multi-vehicle crash brought traffic to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-902822","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\/902822","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=902822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}