{"id":508510,"date":"2026-03-02T01:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508510\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:39:19","slug":"pedestrian-dies-in-hospital-after-being-struck-by-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508510\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies in hospital after being struck by vehicle"},"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>Montreal police say that a 71-year-old man who was hit by a vehicle on Saturday evening in the city&#8217;s Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough has died. <\/p>\n<p>Montreal police spokesperson Manuel Couture said the collision happened at around 7:20 p.m. as the pedestrian was attempting to cross Grenet Street near De M\u00e9sy Street, between two intersections.<\/p>\n<p>Couture said the man may have experienced a medical emergency and collapsed onto the road before being struck by an oncoming vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>The driver, a 59-year-old man was unable to stop in time to avoid the collision, Couture said, adding he was not injured in the crash but was treated for shock. <\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian was taken to hospital where he later died, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the cause of the crash is ongoing. <\/p>\n<p>Couture said police have to consider many different factors, such as determining whether speed contributed to the crash, or if anyone was distracted at the time. Investigators, he said, also need to take into account whether the urban landscape played a role somehow.<\/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":508511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-508510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508510","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=508510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}