{"id":780570,"date":"2026-07-04T21:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780570\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T21:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:53:15","slug":"man-charged-with-careless-driving-causing-death-in-2024-pedestrian-fatality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780570\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with careless driving causing death in 2024 pedestrian fatality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>An 87-year-old man faces a charge of driving carelessly causing the death of a pedestrian from a December 2024 collision in west Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>An 84-year-old man was hit by a car near Byrd Avenue and Westwood Drive, just south of Portage Avenue, before 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 18, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken to hospital in unstable condition and died there.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the car, who was then 86, stayed at the scene and co-operated with police.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested the man, now 87, on June 26, they said in a news release on Saturday. He was charged under the Highway Traffic Act and released on an appearance notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-780570","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\/780570","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=780570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}