{"id":770343,"date":"2026-06-30T04:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770343\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T04:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:47:24","slug":"17-year-old-driver-dies-after-suv-crash-into-parked-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770343\/","title":{"rendered":"17-year-old driver dies after SUV crash into parked vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teen girl has died in hospital after the SUV she was driving collided with parked cars<a href=\"https:\/\/calgary.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/24\/calgary-police-driver-hospital-crash-parked-vehicles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> in southeast Calgary<\/a>\u00a0last week.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the collision happened around 3:40 a.m. Wednesday when a 2025 Volkswagen SUV was heading north on 26 Street SE, near 25 Avenue SE.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the SUV struck a parked 2007 GMC Savana. The impact pushed the GMC into another parked vehicle, a 2017 Mazda 3. Both parked vehicles were unoccupied.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Volkswagen, a 17-year-old girl, was rushed to hospital in critical condition. Police provided an update on Monday saying she died of her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are looking into whether speed played a role in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 403\u2011266\u20111234 or reach out anonymously through Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Calgary as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=calgary.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782746833_947_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teen girl has died in hospital after the SUV she was driving collided with parked cars in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-770343","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\/770343","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=770343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}