{"id":844959,"date":"2026-08-03T20:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/844959\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:12:09","slug":"fiery-crash-on-calgary-highway-leaves-four-injured-and-four-dead-including-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/844959\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiery crash on Calgary highway leaves four injured and four dead, including child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CALGARY \u2014 Three adults and a child are dead after a car going the wrong way on a Calgary highway slammed into another vehicle on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Calgary&#8217;s fire department says it found two of three cars involved in the crash in flames after responding to a call for a serious collision just before 11 p.m. on a southwest highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Calgary police say they believe a 30-year-old man driving a southbound Mercedes-Benz in the wrong lane \u2014 with a woman and child in the passenger seats \u2014 crashed into a Subaru with one occupant, a 43-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say both cars caught fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Then an SUV driven by a 52-year-old woman, with three youth as passengers, struck the Mercedes-Benz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire responders say occupants of the Mercedes-Benz and the Subaru driver were pronounced dead at the scene after the flames were brought under control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say all people in the SUV were taken to hospital, one with life-altering, non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They say investigators are looking into whether the Mercedes-Benz driver was impaired and driving at an excessive speed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 Three adults and a child are dead after a car going the wrong way on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,142204,75541,48,161987,583,294227,944],"class_list":["post-844959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-fire-department","tag-calgary-police","tag-canada","tag-headquarters-building","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-southwest-highway","tag-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844959","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=844959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}