{"id":917849,"date":"2026-10-02T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917849\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:56:09","slug":"pedestrian-dead-after-hit-and-run-in-scarborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917849\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dead after hit and run in Scarborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A pedestrian is dead after a hit and run in Scarborough early Friday morning, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews responded to reports of a pedestrian struck by a driver in a vehicle around 1: 52 a.m. near Midland Avenue and McNicoll Avenue, Toronto police said in a post on social media platform X. <\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene, they said. Toronto paramedics said they attended the scene, but did not transport anyone to hospital. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver fled the scene and that there is no vehicle description at this time. <\/p>\n<p>Roads have reopened after an earlier closure at Midland Avenue between Silver Star Boulevard and McNicoll Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the incident is urged to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-917849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917849","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=917849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}