{"id":814460,"date":"2026-07-20T16:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814460\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:11:08","slug":"man-49-facing-impaired-driving-charge-after-downtown-winnipeg-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814460\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 49, facing impaired driving charge after downtown Winnipeg crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 49-year-old man is facing an impaired driving charge after police say he <a href=\"https:\/\/chvnradio.com\/articles\/busy-downtown-street-closed-sunday-following-serious-crash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost control of his vehicle<\/a>,\u00a0damaging a bus shelter, utility pole and traffic signal box in downtown Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg police say the man was speeding in his 2005 Ford Mustang along Sargent Avenue at around 9:30 a.m. Sunday when he attempted to turn onto Balmoral Street and lost control.<\/p>\n<p>Crash damages downtown intersection<\/p>\n<p>He hit a bus shelter and a Manitoba Hydro pole before crashing into a traffic signal box. The impact left the vehicle&#8217;s front wheels suspended in the air, with the car resting against the signal box.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORIES:<\/p>\n<p>Driver arrested after crash<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle remained at the scene. After speaking with him, officers determined he was impaired by alcohol and took him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>He was later released on an Appearance Notice and is scheduled to appear in court on the charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 49-year-old man is facing an impaired driving charge after police say he lost control of his vehicle,\u00a0damaging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-814460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814460","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=814460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}