{"id":688015,"date":"2026-05-23T06:35:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/688015\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:35:49","slug":"police-investigating-ctrain-collision-that-sent-pedestrian-to-hospital-with-life-threatening-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/688015\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating CTrain collision that sent pedestrian to hospital with life-threatening injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating after a CTrain struck a pedestrian in downtown Calgary on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 5:20 p.m. on Thursday, a 60-year-old man was walking southbound on Centre Street approaching Seventh Avenue S.W. when he entered the path of an oncoming LRT train, Calgary police said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the train was moving through an intersection on a green signal.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the collision, the man became pinned under the train, the release said. He was extricated and transported to the hospital in life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police said speed and impairment are not believed to be factors in the collision. The investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-688015","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\/688015","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=688015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}