A 29-year-old man has been arrested after a child riding a bicycle was seriously injured in a hit-and-run collision in Winnipeg’s West Kildonan neighbourhood Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
The Winnipeg Police Service says officers were called shortly after 5:30 p.m. Aug. 13 to the 500 block of North Point Boulevard after a 2025 Dodge Ram struck the child.<\/p>\n
The child was taken to the hospital in unstable condition with injuries from the collision. Police say the child’s condition was later upgraded to stable.<\/p>\n
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Child struck while riding bicycle<\/p>\n
Police say the child was riding on a sidewalk in front of a housing complex when the truck exited a parking lot and entered the roadway.<\/p>\n
The front bumper of the Dodge Ram struck the child, according to investigators.<\/p>\n
Police say the driver fled the scene before officers were contacted.<\/p>\n
Suspect arrested at Winnipeg residence<\/p>\n
Investigators later identified a 29-year-old suspect and arrested him without incident at his residence.<\/p>\n
He faces charges of dangerous operation of a conveyance causing bodily harm and failing to stop at the scene of an accident.<\/p>\n
The accused was released on an Appearance Notice and is scheduled to appear in court at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 29-year-old man has been arrested after a child riding a bicycle was seriously injured in a hit-and-run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-858444","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\/858444","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=858444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}