{"id":873755,"date":"2026-08-27T21:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873755\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T21:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:10:14","slug":"motorcyclist-killed-after-losing-control-while-travelling-more-than-200-km-h-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873755\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist killed after losing control while travelling more than 200 km\/h, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say a motorcyclist was travelling more than 200 km\/h right before a fatal crash in northeast Calgary on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were called to McKnight Boulevard near Metis Trail NE around 7:50 p.m. for reports of a single\u2011vehicle collision.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a motorcycle was heading eastbound on McKnight at more than 200 km\/h when the driver lost control and was thrown from the bike near the Metis Trail off\u2011ramp.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, a 39\u2011year\u2011old man, was rushed to hospital with life\u2011threatening injuries, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators do not believe impairment was a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with additional information is asked to contact Calgary police at 403\u2011266\u20111234, or submit tips to Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/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 say a motorcyclist was travelling more than 200 km\/h right before a fatal crash in northeast Calgary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-873755","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\/873755","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=873755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}