{"id":576151,"date":"2026-04-01T23:26:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576151\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:26:26","slug":"driver-charged-after-driving-through-barricade-at-calgary-fatal-crash-scene-discoverairdrie-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576151\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver charged after driving through barricade at Calgary fatal crash scene &#8211; DiscoverAirdrie.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Calgary man has been charged after police say he drove through <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.calgary.ca\/driver-charged-in-dangerous-driving-incident\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a barricaded fatal collision scene<\/a> in the city\u2019s northeast early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the incident occurred at approximately 2:45 a.m. on April 1, 2026, at Stoney Trail and McKnight Boulevard N.E., where officers were investigating a fatal collision.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories:<\/p>\n<p>Police say a vehicle drove through a barricade erected at the scene and continued at a high rate of speed while officers were present.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the driver was arrested and the vehicle was seized.<\/p>\n<p>Charanjit Ram, 39, of Calgary, is charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and obstructing a peace officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice often close roads after collisions to protect the officers at work and the integrity of the investigation,\u201d said Insp. Robbie Patterson with the Calgary Police Service traffic unit. \u201cThe barricades are there for a reason and there is no excuse for drivers to ignore them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ram is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday, May 13, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary police are asking anyone with information about the incident to contact them at 403-266-1234 or submit tips anonymously through Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverairdrie.com\/features\/daily-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up<\/a>\u00a0to get the latest local news headlines delivered directly to your inbox every afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Calgary man has been charged after police say he drove through a barricaded fatal collision scene in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-576151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576151","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=576151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}