{"id":48584,"date":"2025-08-06T03:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/48584\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T03:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:48:15","slug":"motorcyclist-killed-in-calgary-crash-was-trying-to-avoid-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/48584\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist killed in Calgary crash was trying to avoid construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motorcyclist <a href=\"https:\/\/calgary.citynews.ca\/2025\/08\/04\/motorcyclist-dead-in-nw-calgary-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">killed in a highway crash<\/a> in northwest Calgary over the weekend was trying to change lanes to avoid road construction.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were called to the southbound lanes of Stoney Trail near Crowchild Trail NW around 1:40 p.m. for reports of a single-vehicle crash.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary police say a 2017 Kawasaki motorcycle was heading southbound in the middle lane of Stoney Trail, approaching construction in the middle and right lanes at the Crowchild overpass.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcycle lost control while trying to move over to the left lane, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The rider, a man in his 40s, fell from the bike and was injured. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the collision is ongoing, but police say speed or impairment are not believed to be factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist killed in a highway crash in northwest Calgary over the weekend was trying to change lanes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-48584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48584","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=48584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}