{"id":699802,"date":"2026-05-28T17:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/699802\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:51:09","slug":"new-details-emerge-in-trial-of-19-year-old-accused-in-crossing-guards-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/699802\/","title":{"rendered":"New details emerge in trial of 19-year-old accused in crossing guard’s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Court documents reveal new details of a hit and run that killed a school crossing guard in Ottawa in March, as the 19-year-old driver prepares to go to trial for dangerous driving causing death.<\/p>\n

Xzander Wright has pleaded guilty to failing to remain at the scene of a hit and run after crossing guard Peter Clark was struck at the intersection of Cedarview Road and Kennevale Drive in Barrhaven on March 23. Clark died later the same day. <\/p>\n

Wright has pleaded not guilty to a separate charge of dangerous driving causing death and is preparing to go to trial.<\/p>\n

According to an agreed statement of facts read in court Thursday, Wright was travelling south on Cedarview Road in a Toyota Tundra pickup truck on the morning of the collision as Clark helped a mother and daughter to cross the street.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Clark, who had his back to the vehicle at the time, was wearing a reflective safety vest and holding a stop sign.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As the court documents describe it, Wright turned left and Clark was struck. Wright drove away, returned to observe Clark being assisted by others, and left again. He did not offer assistance or leave any information before driving away the second time. <\/p>\n

Surveillance video led Ottawa police to identify Wright, who was arrested and charged the following morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wright will be sentenced for failing to remain at the scene following the conclusion of his trial for dangerous driving causing death. <\/p>\n

A family member of Clark’s was present in the courtroom on Thursday as the agreed statement of facts was read.<\/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":634632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-699802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699802","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=699802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}