{"id":13445,"date":"2025-07-21T17:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13445\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:52:17","slug":"1-dead-and-3-in-critical-condition-after-northeast-calgary-crash-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13445\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead and 3 in critical condition after northeast Calgary crash &#8211; Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A horrific crash in the northeast community of Temple has claimed the life of a pedestrian and sent three other people to hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752963848_180_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Calgary police were called out to 52 Street near Temple Road northeast at 5:15 a.m. Monday for reports of a two-vehicle rollover.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said a blue Ford F150 pickup truck was travelling the wrong way down 52 Street northeast when it struck a pedestrian who was crossing the roadway just south of the intersection.<\/p>\n<p>The pickup then continued southbound in the northbound lanes along 52 Street before crashing into an oncoming Jeep.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tCalgary police said a pedestrian was killed in the crash and three other people were sent to hospital in critical condition.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A neighbour told Global News that people who live in the area rushed out of their homes when they heard the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to check on the guy.\u00a0 He was still inside his vehicle.\u00a0 But there was a fire that already erupted on top, and I was trying to get him to come out and I gave him a little bit of a hand, but he was bleeding all over the place,\u201d said Ed Koelle, who lives nearby.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752963849_305_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe really didn\u2019t want help \u2014 he really didn\u2019t want anyone to touch him.\u00a0 I was trying to coax him to come to the grass to get away from the vehicle \u2014 but he was totally very non-cooperative,\u201d added Koelle.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian was declared dead at the scene and police took the driver into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Both he and two occupants of the Jeep are in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tInvestigators said the driver of the pickup truck was travelling the wrong way on 52 Street northeast when the collision took place.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Colin Foster of the Calgary police collision reconstruction unit said there was no indication the driver of the pickup slowed down after striking the pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not seeing any tire marks. I\u2019m not seeing any skid marks. That\u2019s not to say that he didn\u2019t break, I just haven\u2019t seen any evidence of it,\u201d Foster said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are asking any members of the public who may have witnessed the crash or has CCTV or dashcam video to give police a call.<\/p>\n<p>The section of 52 Street, between Temple Drive and 32 Avenue northeast is expected to be shut down for several hours while police investigate.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A horrific crash in the northeast community of Temple has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,2469,12459,48,2169,12458,44,1890],"class_list":{"0":"post-13445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary-crash","10":"tag-calgary-police-service","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-fatal-crash","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-traffic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13445","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=13445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}