{"id":500612,"date":"2026-02-26T10:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500612\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:38:11","slug":"columbia-street-closed-after-driver-strikes-pedestrian-in-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500612\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Street closed after driver strikes pedestrian in Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating after the driver of a vehicle struck and injured a pedestrian in downtown Vancouver Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) says officers responded to reports of the collision on Columbia Street near East Hastings Street around 11:20 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple emergency crews are responding and police have shut down traffic in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Images show debris scattered across the road and a TransLink bus stopped at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) says that two ambulances responded to the scene and transported one patient in serious but stable condition to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>CityNews has reached out to the VPD for more information.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. More to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after the driver of a vehicle struck and injured a pedestrian in downtown Vancouver Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-500612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500612","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=500612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}