{"id":797711,"date":"2026-07-12T20:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797711\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T20:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:12:10","slug":"83-year-old-driver-seriously-injured-in-single-vehicle-crash-near-jacques-cartier-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797711\/","title":{"rendered":"83-year-old driver seriously injured in single-vehicle crash near Jacques-Cartier Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 83-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious injuries after crashing his vehicle near the foot of the Jacques-Cartier Bridge early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec (SQ) said emergency crews responded to the single-vehicle collision at about 3 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver left the roadway for reasons that remain under investigation before striking a tree. No other vehicles were involved.<\/p>\n<p>The man suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe a medical emergency may have contributed to the crash. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Montreal 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=montreal.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\/06\/1782077411_500_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 83-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious injuries after crashing his vehicle near the foot of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-797711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797711","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=797711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}