{"id":260143,"date":"2025-11-04T02:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260143\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T02:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:59:08","slug":"5-year-old-killed-after-being-hit-by-vehicle-in-northwest-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260143\/","title":{"rendered":"5-year-old killed after being hit by vehicle in northwest Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edmonton police say a 5-year-old boy has died after being hit by a vehicle Monday morning in northwest Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>EPS says around 10 a.m., officers responded to a report that a woman had hit a child while trying to leave the parking lot of a residential complex in the McConachie neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbours confirmed to CityNews that it happened outside Arcadia Place on McConachie Boulevard near 62 Street.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_2811-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-722170\"  \/>A small memorial set up for a 5-year-old boy who was killed outside Arcadia Place on McConachie Boulevard near 62 Street on Monday morning. (Photo Credit: James Dunn, CityNews)<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that at the same time as the woman was leaving the parking lot, a 5-year-old was running eastbound on the sidewalk and fell.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the 25-year-old driver called 9-1-1 immediately, and the 5-year-old was taken to a hospital by paramedics, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p>EPS does not believe speed or alcohol was a factor, and an investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have any information is asked to contact police at 780-423-4567 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton police say a 5-year-old boy has died after being hit by a vehicle Monday morning in northwest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-260143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260143","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=260143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}