{"id":76049,"date":"2025-08-17T09:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/76049\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T09:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:38:15","slug":"motorcyclist-death-in-centre-street-crash-under-investigation-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/76049\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist death in Centre Street crash under investigation: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/calgary.citynews.ca\/2025\/08\/15\/motorcycle-crash-calgary-centre-street\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">vehicle collision<\/a> on Calgary\u2019s Centre Street that led to a motorcyclist in his 60s being thrown off his bike and dying Friday is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary police say it happened at around 4 p.m. on the corner of Calgary\u2019s Centre Street and 12 Avenue when a man in his 60s, driving a 2004 Suzuki motorcycle, was heading northbound on Centre Street North.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, a 2002 Acura MDX SUV going south turned left across the motorcyclist\u2019s path, striking and dismounting them.<\/p>\n<p>Police say he suffered critical injuries and later died of life-threatening injuries in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the driver was uninjured and remained on scene.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations say alcohol and drugs aren\u2019t considered factors in the collision.<\/p>\n<p>Police ask anyone with information about this incident to call them at 403-266-1234 or leave a tip anonymously through <a href=\"https:\/\/calgarycrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Crime Stoppers<\/a>\u00a0at 1-800-222-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vehicle collision on Calgary\u2019s Centre Street that led to a motorcyclist in his 60s being thrown off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-76049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76049","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=76049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}