{"id":597652,"date":"2026-04-11T19:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597652\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:39:08","slug":"person-dead-after-being-hit-by-skytrain-in-vancouver-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597652\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dead after being hit by SkyTrain in Vancouver, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person is dead after being hit by a SkyTrain at Vancouver\u2019s Main Street Station Friday evening, police have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The incident appears to have been accidental, police tell 1130 NewsRadio.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the station around 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers arrived on scene and located an individual in medical distress,\u201d said Const. Amanda Steed, media relations officer for Metro Vancouver Transit Police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite life saving measures by first responders, the individual was pronounced deceased on scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The station was closed to the public while emergency crews waited for the coroner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe death does not appear suspicious and criminality is not suspected,\u201d Steed said.<\/p>\n<p>We have reached out to police for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person is dead after being hit by a SkyTrain at Vancouver\u2019s Main Street Station Friday evening, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-597652","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\/597652","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=597652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}