{"id":630123,"date":"2026-04-26T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630123\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:23:11","slug":"driver-in-hospital-after-macleod-trail-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630123\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver in hospital after Macleod Trail crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driver of a vehicle was rushed to hospital in life-threatening condition after crashing into a pole on a major southeast highway, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>They say it happened at around 6:30 a.m. at 94 Avenue and Macleod Trail SE.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the victim \u2014 the only occupant of the vehicle \u2014 was extracted from the vehicle by Calgary firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Macleod Trail is closed in both directions between 90 Avenue and Southland Drive SE as police investigate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calgary.citynews.ca\/listenlive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Listen to 660 NewsRadio<\/a> every 10 minutes on the ones for traffic updates. You can also follow us for traffic and news updates on X <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/citynewscalgary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@CityNewsCalgary<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsRadioCGY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@NewsRadioCGY<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver of a vehicle was rushed to hospital in life-threatening condition after crashing into a pole on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-630123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630123","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=630123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}