{"id":680884,"date":"2026-05-20T01:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/680884\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T01:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:43:10","slug":"man-charged-after-vehicle-ramming-in-vancouvers-west-end-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/680884\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after vehicle ramming in Vancouver’s West End, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Police say a man has been charged with dangerous driving offences after a vehicle ramming in Vancouver’s West End on May 15 left a senior with critical injuries and two police officers hospitalized.<\/p>\n

A Vancouver Police Department (VPD) statement on Tuesday says that Tadd Bali, 34, was charged with four counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm.<\/p>\n

Police said last Friday that a driver allegedly rammed several vehicles, drove along the sidewalk and hit a senior riding a motorized scooter around Comox and Broughton streets and the Nelson Park dog area.<\/p>\n

VPD said the incident was reported around 5:30 a.m. PT, and the suspect allegedly rammed a police vehicle responding to the incident, destroying the cruiser. <\/p>\n

\"APolice say the driver rammed a police vehicle in Vancouver’s West End neighbourhood at Comox and Bute streets on Friday, May 15, 2026, after being reported driving erratically in the area. (Amelia John\/CBC)<\/p>\n

According to the VPD statement, Bali has had “extensive interactions” with police in B.C. and Saskatchewan, and he remains in custody.<\/p>\n

“The senior citizen injured when the suspect vehicle struck him remains in the hospital in serious condition,” the statement reads.<\/p>\n

“Both injured VPD officers, including one recruit constable who was on his second day of work at the time of the incident, were released from the hospital on May 15.”<\/p>\n

Bali was arrested near Comox and Bute streets last Friday, and police said at the time that mental health and drug use were possible factors in the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-680884","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\/680884","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=680884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}