{"id":498975,"date":"2026-02-25T17:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498975\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:18:12","slug":"1-dead-4-injured-after-suv-crashes-into-rideau-street-drop-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498975\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 4 injured after SUV crashes into Rideau Street drop-in"},"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 2 minutes<\/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>One person was killed and four others injured when a vehicle crashed into a drop-in centre at the corner of Rideau and Cobourg streets in downtown Ottawa on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 9 a.m. at the corner of Rideau and Cobourg streets, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa paramedics said four pedestrians were struck including an elderly man who suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital in critical condition. Police said late Wednesday morning that he had died.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics said two other men were seriously injured and also taken to hospital in critical condition, but their injuries are not deemed life-threatening. The fourth pedestrian, a woman, was taken to hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics said the man who was driving the SUV was also injured and taken to hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The damaged front of a vehicle that crashed into a brick building on a snowy morning.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772039891_211_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Another angle of the crash. (Francis Ferland\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>The website for the Capital City Mission drop-in centre for vulnerable people says it opens at 9 a.m. on Wednesdays for food, coffee and warm clothes. The organization has not replied to a request for information.<\/p>\n<p>There is no information on the cause of the crash. It was snowing in Ottawa at the time, and Environment Canada had issued a special weather statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I heard something like &#8216;boom,&#8217; something crazy. I went outside and saw the car,&#8221; said Safouane Elattari, who works at a nearby restaurant. <\/p>\n<p>WATCH | Some reaction from people nearby:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772039892_803_default.jpg\"  alt=\"\" class=\"thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">Witnesses describe scene of crash along Rideau Street<\/p>\n<p>A vehicle crashed into a downtown Ottawa drop-in centre. CBC spoke with people in the neighbourhood who saw and heard the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Rideau Street is closed between Cobourg and Chapel streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-498975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498975","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=498975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}