{"id":808314,"date":"2026-07-17T17:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808314\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T17:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:48:10","slug":"police-investigating-vehicle-strike-of-elderly-pedestrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808314\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating vehicle strike of elderly pedestrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating after an elderly man was seriously injured when he was struck by a vehicle in southeastern Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>The Medicine Hat Police Service says an 84-year-old male pedestrian was crossing within a marked crosswalk, with the pedestrian crossing signals activated, when he was struck by a vehicle completing a left turn.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at 13 Avenue and Southview Drive southeast in Medicine Hat Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities responded to the scene at approximately 7:38 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pedestrian was transported by ambulance to hospital and was later airlifted to Calgary for further treatment of serious, life-threatening injuries,\u201d a MHPS news release states, adding, \u201cHeavy fog and poor visibility were present in the area during the morning hours and are being considered as factors in this collision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The driver of a pickup truck has been charged with one count of Failing to Yield to a Pedestrian in a Crosswalk and is scheduled to appear in court September 25th.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Calgary 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=calgary.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\/07\/1784110070_915_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 are investigating after an elderly man was seriously injured when he was struck by a vehicle in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-808314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808314","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=808314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}