{"id":695589,"date":"2026-05-26T20:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/695589\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T20:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:22:09","slug":"man-dead-after-being-thrown-from-car-in-northwest-calgary-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/695589\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead after being thrown from car in northwest Calgary collision"},"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 man died following a single-vehicle collision in northwest Calgary that resulted in the car catching fire.<\/p>\n<p>Just before 2 a.m. Tuesday, a Nissan Altima was heading west on Crowchild Trail N.W., exiting onto Northland Drive N.W., according to a police news release.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the vehicle went off the road and into a grass median, where it continued west before sideswiping a concrete barrier and colliding with another, sending the vehicle into the air and ejecting the driver.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle then landed on its roof and caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old driver was found nearby and declared deceased at the scene, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said drugs and alcohol are not believed to be factors in the incident; however, they are investigating speed as a possible element.<\/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":695590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-695589","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\/695589","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=695589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}