Surrey wellness check leads to arrests after pickup crashes into tree, fire hydrant<\/p>\n
Published 12:00 pm Thursday, May 14, 2026<\/p>\n
Surrey police arrested a male driver and female passenger early Thursday morning after a wellness check led to a crash involving a Dodge pickup.<\/p>\n
Police responded to a wellness check at around 1:20 a.m. from a person concerned about the well-being of their friend. Officers located what they described as a \u201cpotential vehicle of interest\u201d in the 12800 block of 76 Avenue.<\/p>\n
The Dodge pickup refused to stop for police and \u201ceventually drove into a tree and fire hydrant,\u201d said Surrey Police spokesperson Ian MacDonald.<\/p>\n
The male driver and a female passenger were arrested at the scene, and several charges are being considered, such as dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, breach of driving prohibition, and mischief.<\/p>\n
The person who was the subject of the wellness check was another passenger in the vehicle, and the police verified their well-being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey wellness check leads to arrests after pickup crashes into tree, fire hydrant Published 12:00 pm Thursday, May…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-669617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669617","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=669617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}