{"id":77463,"date":"2025-08-17T23:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77463\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T23:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:50:08","slug":"calgary-se-deerfoot-crash-sends-2-to-hospital-in-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77463\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary SE Deerfoot crash sends 2 to hospital in critical condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people are in critical condition after their vehicle lost control and struck the overpass on southbound Deerfoot Trail in southeast Calgary Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary police say it happened at around 1:30 p.m. on Deerfoot Trail at Cranston Avenue, approaching Seton Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>Officers say one of the two occupants was ejected from the vehicle in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The two in critical condition have been rushed to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/A-vehicle-that-lost-control-on-Deerfoot-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"EMS with a stretcher at the scene of a crash on Deerfoot Trail SE in Calgary on Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025\" class=\"wp-image-3837812\"  \/>EMS with a stretcher at the scene of a crash on Deerfoot Trail SE in Calgary on Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025. (Noah Laycock, CityNews image)<\/p>\n<p>Southbound Deerfoot Trail is closed between Stoney Trail and Cranston Boulevard\/Seton Boulevard SE for the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The closures will likely last for several hours as the traffic unit investigates, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary police are asking motorists to avoid the area until roads reopen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calgary.citynews.ca\/listenlive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Listen to 660 NewsRadio<\/a> every 10 minutes on the ones for traffic updates. You can also follow us for traffic and news updates on X <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/citynewscalgary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@CityNewsCalgary<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsRadioCGY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@NewsRadioCGY<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are in critical condition after their vehicle lost control and struck the overpass on southbound Deerfoot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-77463","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\/77463","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=77463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}