{"id":803518,"date":"2026-07-15T13:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803518\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:10:31","slug":"woman-dies-after-vancouver-e-scooter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803518\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after Vancouver e-scooter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) says a 30-year-old woman who was badly hurt in an electric scooter crash has tragically died.<\/p>\n<p>Police say she was struck by a vehicle near Commercial and Venables around 10 a.m. July 3, and she succumbed to her injuries in hospital on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scooter operator was travelling westbound on Venables Street when she collided with the side of a vehicle,\u201d the VPD said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe woman struck her head on the ground, and the driver of the vehicle stopped immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police say the woman was conscious as she was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>This incident comes after a separate e-scooter crash in Coal Harbour over the weekend landed a 54-year-old woman in hospital with a head injury and broken collarbone.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say neither victim was wearing a helmet. They are reminding riders this is against the law.<\/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":"The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) says a 30-year-old woman who was badly hurt in an electric scooter crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-803518","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\/803518","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=803518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}