{"id":599927,"date":"2026-04-12T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/599927\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:00:10","slug":"man-struck-and-killed-by-skytrain-in-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/599927\/","title":{"rendered":"Man struck and killed by SkyTrain in Vancouver"},"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>A man was struck and killed by a SkyTrain at the Main Street-Science World Station in Vancouver on Friday, in what police believe to be an accident.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to the scene just after 8 p.m., where they found a man in medical distress, according to a statement emailed to CBC News from Metro Vancouver Transit Police. <\/p>\n<p>It said the man died at the scene, despite life saving measures by first responders. <\/p>\n<p>Police say the death does not appear suspicious and criminality is not suspected. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this point in the investigation, we also do not believe it was a suicide attempt, but accidental,&#8221; said the statement.  <\/p>\n<p>The incident closed the SkyTrain station down for over four hours as police investigated and awaited the arrival of the coroner.<\/p>\n<p>B.C. Emergency Health Services confirmed to CBC News two ambulances responded to the incident, and no patients were taken to hospital. <\/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":599928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-599927","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\/599927","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=599927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}