{"id":779133,"date":"2026-07-04T05:13:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/779133\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T05:13:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:13:25","slug":"richmond-police-officer-has-been-charged-with-dangerous-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/779133\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond police officer has been charged with dangerous driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Richmond RCMP officer has been charged following an incident that occurred in July of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Cst. Beyond Xi was driving a police vehicle when they were involved in a collision with a Honda Ridgeline at Williams and No.4 roads in Richmond.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Ridgeline, a man in his 50s, was injured said a statement from the Independent Investigations Office (IIO) of BC.<\/p>\n<p>Three other people were injured in the collision. A man and a woman who were pedestrians, and a person in their yard.<\/p>\n<p>The IIO stated that the two pedestrians were seriously injured and all four people were taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The IIO started its investigation into the collision and took witness statements, specialized forensic reports from a third party and video footage from the area.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the BC Prosecution Service announced that it was charging Xi with two counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sgt. Venessa Munn from E Division, Xi is on administrative duties and his duty status is subject to continuous review and assessment.\u00a0 A Code of Conduct investigation was initiated and remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The first court appearance for Xi will be Aug. 4 in Richmond.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Vancouver 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=vancouver.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\/05\/1778189171_473_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 Richmond RCMP officer has been charged following an incident that occurred in July of 2025. Cst. Beyond&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-779133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779133","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=779133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}