{"id":530662,"date":"2026-03-12T04:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T04:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/530662\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T04:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T04:39:07","slug":"man-in-his-80s-seriously-injured-after-fall-possible-electrocution-in-longueuil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/530662\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in his 80s seriously injured after fall, possible &#8216;electrocution&#8217; in Longueuil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An octogenarian is in critical condition Wednesday after falling to the ground in Longueuil.<\/p>\n<p>The man may have been \u201celectrocuted,\u201d according to a statement posted on social media by the Longueuil Police Department (SPAL).<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred shortly before 7:30 p.m. on Springfield Street in the borough of Greenfield Park. The man was taken to a hospital and his \u201ccondition is considered critical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA scene has been set up and SPAL investigators have been called in to shed light on the circumstances surrounding this event,\u201d the SPAL statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The police department did not specify whether weather conditions\u2014in particular, the freezing rain falling on southern Quebec\u2014were a factor.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An octogenarian is in critical condition Wednesday after falling to the ground in Longueuil. The man may have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-530662","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\/530662","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=530662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}