{"id":789283,"date":"2026-07-08T23:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789283\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T23:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:37:20","slug":"pedestrian-hit-by-cyclist-last-month-in-vancouver-dies-in-hospital-vpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789283\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian hit by cyclist last month in Vancouver dies in hospital: VPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American tourist who was hit by a cyclist while crossing West Cordova Street at Richards Street has died in hospital, say the Vancouver Police Department (VPD).<\/p>\n<p>The 72-year-old man and his wife were hit by a cyclist travelling eastbound on Cordova Street on June 29 at about 5:30 p.m., according to police. <\/p>\n<p>The man lost consciousness at the scene while his wife suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/vlcsnap-2026-06-30-14h05m16s322-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4457274\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>She has since recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The man was transported to hospital where he died on July 5, the VPD reports.<\/p>\n<p>The cyclist was not hurt.<\/p>\n<p>The VPD say the investigation into the incident is ongoing.<\/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":"An American tourist who was hit by a cyclist while crossing West Cordova Street at Richards Street has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-789283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789283","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=789283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}