{"id":780389,"date":"2026-07-04T19:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780389\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T19:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:53:10","slug":"man-87-facing-charge-after-84-year-old-hit-by-car-winnipeg-police-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780389\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 87, facing charge after 84-year-old hit by car: Winnipeg police \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG \u2013 Winnipeg police say an 87-year-old man has been charged after an 84-year-old pedestrian was hit by a car about two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the pedestrian was hit in December 2024 near Byrd Avenue and Westwood Drive in the city\u2019s west end.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian was taken to hospital in unstable condition and later died.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a494eb434a4c8de5000f50djpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"3962\" data-pswp-height=\"2642\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a494eb434a4c8de5000f50djpeg.jpg\" alt=\"The Winnipeg Police Service headquarters is pictured in Winnipeg, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Steve Lambert\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Winnipeg Police Service headquarters is pictured in Winnipeg, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Steve Lambert<\/p>\n<p>Police say the driver remained at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>He has been charged with careless driving causing death.<\/p>\n<p>Police say he was charged in June.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 4, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 Winnipeg police say an 87-year-old man has been charged after an 84-year-old pedestrian was hit by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-780389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780389","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=780389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}