{"id":791223,"date":"2026-07-09T19:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791223\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:59:10","slug":"pedestrian-fatally-struck-in-southeast-edmonton-was-crossing-against-the-light-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791223\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian fatally struck in southeast Edmonton was crossing against the light, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say a 69-year-old woman was killed after being struck by a vehicle while crossing the street in southeast Edmonton early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Edmonton Police Service believes the pedestrian was crossing 23 Avenue at 50 Street, using a crosswalk, against the light when she was hit by an SUV.<\/p>\n<p>It happened around 12:10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old boy behind the wheel of the SUV remained on scene. Three other passengers were in the vehicle, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Impairment is not believed to be a factor in the collision.<\/p>\n<p>The EPS major collision investigations section (MCIS) is investigating, with authorities seeking witnesses and dashcam footage.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Edmonton 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=edmonton.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\/1778178555_824_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":"Police say a 69-year-old woman was killed after being struck by a vehicle while crossing the street in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-791223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791223","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=791223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}