{"id":915010,"date":"2026-09-30T06:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915010\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T06:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:40:13","slug":"pedestrian-dead-after-being-struck-by-pickup-truck-in-hit-and-run-in-mississauga-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915010\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dead after being struck by pickup truck in hit and run in Mississauga, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A pedestrian is dead after being struck by a pickup truck in a hit and run in Mississauga on Tuesday evening, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The collision happened in the intersection of Winston Churchill Boulevard and Dundas Street W., according to Peel Regional Police. Officers responded shortly after 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene despite life-saving efforts by emergency personnel, Const. Moulika Sharma, spokesperson for Peel police, told reporters on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sharma said preliminary information suggests that the pedestrian was northbound on Winston Churchill Boulevard on the west side of the crosswalk when hit by a dark-coloured pickup truck headed south and turning west on Dundas Street W.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There&#8217;s no word on the age or sex of the pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sharma said officers were gathering surveillance camera footage from the area Tuesday night and trying to determine which part of the truck was damaged in the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We are still at the very early stages of this investigation and we encourage the driver to seek legal counsel and turn themselves in to the police,&#8221; Sharma said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All eastbound and westbound lanes of Dundas Street West have been closed between Hampshire Gate and Woodchester Drive as police investigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are urging motorists to avoid the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian is dead after being struck by a pickup truck in a hit and run in Mississauga&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,250288,272597,55405,289240,35243,246569,315661],"class_list":["post-915010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dundas-street","tag-emergency-personnel","tag-mississauga","tag-moulika-sharma","tag-peel-regional-police","tag-pickup-truck","tag-winston-churchill-boulevard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915010","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=915010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}