{"id":618385,"date":"2026-04-21T08:05:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/618385\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:05:58","slug":"driver-taken-to-hospital-in-serious-condition-after-motorcycle-collides-with-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/618385\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver taken to hospital in serious condition after motorcycle collides with tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One person is in hospital in serious condition after a motorcycle collided with a tree in the city\u2019s northwest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Calgary police asked the public to avoid Valley Springs Road N.W. due to road closures in both directions at Valley Brook Circle N.W. at 3:45 p.m. Monday, more than an hour after the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sgt. Sean Sherman with the <a href=\"https:\/\/calgaryherald.com\/tag\/calgary-police-service\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Calgary Police Service;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Calgary Police Service&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Calgary Police Service<\/a> said that a male driver in his 40s was riding his dirt bike along the roads in the area \u201con more than one occasion.\u201d The bike is \u201cbelieved to be from a household in this area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A witness approached the driver and asked him to slow down, according to Sherman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver \u201cdid the opposite and was travelling westbound on the road . . . and then lost control of his bike and hit the tree,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe are asking (the) public to avoid the area and use alternative routes,\u201d read an update from police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver was taken to hospital with serious, non-life-threatening injuries, but it is unknown if the injuries will be life-altering, Sherman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sherman warned that driving at high speeds is a \u201chuge risk\u201d to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSo if you\u2019re already going high rates of speed and there\u2019s kids that walk through this area and there\u2019s residents who walk through this area, it\u2019s going to be a risk to them because when you\u2019re going that high a speed and you lose control, that\u2019s when bad things can happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person is in hospital in serious condition after a motorcycle collided with a tree in the city\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,75541,48,232265,232264,120837,232267,232266],"class_list":["post-618385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-police","tag-canada","tag-dirt-bike","tag-sean-sherman","tag-serious-condition","tag-valley-brook-circle-n-w","tag-valley-springs-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618385","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=618385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}