{"id":652492,"date":"2026-05-06T22:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652492\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:58:16","slug":"driver-killed-another-person-injured-in-2-vehicle-crash-east-of-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652492\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed, another person injured in 2-vehicle crash east of Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alberta RCMP confirmed a man has died following a two-vehicle crash Wednesday morning at the intersection of Highway 1 (Trans Canada Highway) and Range Road 281, just east of Chestermere.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Mounties said they received a call about \u201ca serious motor vehicle collision\u201d around 8 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A 73-year-old male driver of one of the vehicles died from his injuries on scene, while a 19-year-old female driver of the other vehicle was transported to hospital in Calgary, where she was treated for her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no word yet on what caused the crash, but the RCMP Collision Reconstruction team has been called in to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Calgary man found guilty of drugging, kidnapping, assaulting at least 7 women'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778108296_124_NN_MANTHA_VERDICT-Rant_OM01SOVF_thumbnail_1280x720_.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t0:59<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCalgary man found guilty of drugging, kidnapping, assaulting at least 7 women\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alberta RCMP confirmed a man has died following a two-vehicle crash Wednesday morning at the intersection of Highway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48,242098,242099,28462,1890],"class_list":["post-652492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-chestermere-fatal-crash","tag-highway-1-fatal-crash","tag-investigations","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652492","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=652492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}