{"id":369317,"date":"2025-12-26T04:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/369317\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T04:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:48:08","slug":"pedestrian-dies-after-collision-with-surrey-b-c-police-vehicle-on-christmas-day-watchdog-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/369317\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies after collision with Surrey, B.C., police vehicle on Christmas Day, watchdog says"},"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>B.C.&#8217;s police oversight agency is investigating after a female pedestrian was killed following a collision with a Surrey police vehicle on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) said in a statement that the collision happened around 6 a.m. PT on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers with the Surrey Police Service (SPS) were leaving a gas station near the intersection of 108 Avenue and 132 Street, close to Whalley Athletic Park, when the collision happened, according to the IIO.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics took the woman to hospital with life-threatening injuries, and she later died, the IIO said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman wasn&#8217;t named or otherwise identified, and SPS said in a statement that it would provide no further details while the IIO investigates the case.<\/p>\n<p>The IIO is called in any time police are involved in a situation that results in death or serious harm in B.C. and determines whether an officer has committed any wrongdoing. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with more information on the crash is asked to contact the IIO.<\/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":369318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-369317","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\/369317","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=369317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}