{"id":814093,"date":"2026-07-20T12:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814093\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:11:14","slug":"pedestrian-fatally-struck-while-crossing-sherbrooke-street-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814093\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian fatally struck while crossing Sherbrooke Street in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 50s was fatally struck by a driver while crossing Sherbrooke Street on Sunday evening in eastern Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>The collision occurred around 10 p.m. near Viau Street, which separates the boroughs of Rosemont\u2013La Petite-Patrie and Mercier\u2013Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.<\/p>\n<p>According to Montreal police (SPVM), the victim was crossing Sherbrooke Street from north to south when he was struck by the vehicle traveling eastbound.<\/p>\n<p>The impact reportedly occurred at a location \u201cthat was not designated as a crosswalk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CPR was performed on the man, but he was pronounced dead at the scene upon the arrival of paramedics.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle stopped and remained at the scene after the collision. He suffered a nervous shock, according to the SPVM.<\/p>\n<p>Police have launched an investigation to fully clarify the circumstances surrounding this incident.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance, there does not appear to be any criminal element in this case, according to public information officer Rapha\u00ebl Bergeron, who spoke late Sunday night into Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews<\/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":"A man in his 50s was fatally struck by a driver while crossing Sherbrooke Street on Sunday evening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-814093","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\/814093","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=814093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}