{"id":556087,"date":"2026-03-23T21:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556087\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T21:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:35:16","slug":"police-seek-pickup-truck-that-struck-school-crossing-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556087\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek pickup truck that struck school crossing guard"},"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>Ottawa police are searching for a pickup truck involved in a hit-and-run collision in Barrhaven that left an elementary school crossing guard with life-threatening injuries Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the crossing guard, a man in his 50s, was struck around 8:20 a.m. while on duty at Cedarview Road and Kennevale Drive in Barrhaven. The intersection is near Mary Honeywell Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p>The driver fled the scene, police said. They&#8217;re looking for a dark-coloured Ford F-150 pickup truck &#8220;believed to be involved&#8221; in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are asking anyone who witnessed the collision or who may have dashcam footage of it to contact investigators.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"traffic calmed neighbourhood sign near intersection of hit and run, photo taken March 23, 2026\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774301715_588_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.778523489932886\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>A sign on Kennevale Drive in Barrhaven notifies people they&#8217;re entering a &#8216;traffic-calmed&#8217; neighbourhood, just east of where the collision took place.  (Jacob Taillefer Racine\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Leaving the scene of a serious motor vehicle collision is a serious offence and we&#8217;re very interested in speaking to the driver,&#8221; Duty Insp. David Merkel told CBC. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Ottawa Safety Council, which recruits and trains adult crossing guards for local school boards, Monday is School Crossing Guard Day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts are with the individual and their family during this incredibly difficult time. Our immediate focus is on supporting them, as well as [affected] staff and the school community,&#8221; the safety council said in a social media post. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"David Hill March 23, 2026, Ottawa\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774301716_281_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Barrhaven West Coun. David Hill says he hopes crossing guards know how much they&#8217;re valued.  (CBC)<\/p>\n<p>Barrhaven West Coun. David Hill called the incident is &#8220;really traumatic,&#8221; and said his wife works in the area and knows the injured crossing guard. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to make sure that the traffic guards know how much we care about them and value them and what they do,&#8221; he told CBC. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And we&#8217;re really pulling for our traffic guard here to do well.&#8221;  <\/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":556088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-556087","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\/556087","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=556087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}