{"id":918471,"date":"2026-10-03T00:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/918471\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T00:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:58:12","slug":"12-year-old-boy-struck-by-vehicle-in-midtown-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/918471\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old boy struck by vehicle in midtown Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"c-overline b-overline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0October 02, 2026 at 8:07p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0October 02, 2026 at 6:43p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>A 12-year-old boy is in hospital with critical injuries after being struck by a vehicle in the Yonge Street and Lawrence Avenue area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 12-year-old boy is in hospital after being struck by a vehicle in midtown Toronto on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TPSOperations\/status\/2106150982312751328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TPSOperations\/status\/2106150982312751328\">Toronto police say<\/a> it occurred at the intersection of Duplex Avenue and Lawrence Avenue West, near Yonge Street, shortly before 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The boy\u2019s injuries are critical but not life-threatening, police say. According to Toronto paramedics, the boy was taken to the hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say the driver of the vehicle remained at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The circumstances surrounding the collision are unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Updated:\u00a0October 02, 2026 at 8:07p.m. EDT Published:\u00a0October 02, 2026 at 6:43p.m. EDT A 12-year-old boy is in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-918471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918471","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=918471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}