Eight people were taken to hospital \u2014 including three children \u2014 after three separate vehicle collisions in Winnipeg on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
A Ford Fusion was struck by a Honda Fit at the intersection of Pembina Highway and Plaza Drive in south Winnipeg around 4:30 p.m. on Monday, city police said in a news release.<\/p>\n
Police said the Ford had a green light as it was heading northbound on the highway, when the westbound Honda drove through a red light at the intersection.<\/p>\n
The Honda then mounted the sidewalk and hit three young children who were with an adult, the release said.<\/p>\n
The children had minor injuries and were taken to hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n
The Honda’s driver and passenger\u2014 a woman in her 70s and a man in his 80s, respectively \u2014 were taken to hospital in unstable condition, police said. They were later upgraded to stable.<\/p>\n
The driver was handed a ticket under the Highway Traffic Act and the traffic division is still investigating.<\/p>\n
Anyone who has information or video of the incident is asked to call the traffic unit at 204-986-7085. Anonymous tips can be sent to Crime Stoppers 204-786-TIPS or winnipegcrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n
That same afternoon, a man was pronounced dead after a serious accident at Portage Avenue and Main Street in downtown Winnipeg.<\/p>\n
Police said a man in his 70s was taken to hospital in critical condition after the vehicle he was driving went up onto the curb and hit a pole.<\/p>\n
The man was pronounced dead in hospital, police said.<\/p>\n
Traffic was blocked off at the major intersection between 4:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Two more people were taken to hospital after police responded to a two-vehicle collision on Sterling Lyon Parkway, near the Seasons of Tuxedo shopping area, around 5 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n
Police said a vehicle that was heading east hit another vehicle that was going west as it turned in front of it. The impact sent the westbound vehicle crashing into a light standard, crushing its roof.<\/p>\n
Two people were taken to hospital in critical condition and were later upgraded to stable, police said.<\/p>\n
Nearby traffic lights were affected for several hours, the release said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight people were taken to hospital \u2014 including three children \u2014 after three separate vehicle collisions in Winnipeg…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,263891,200031,315818,232970,167699,22073,82155],"class_list":["post-915634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-city-police","tag-downtown-winnipeg","tag-honda-fit","tag-stable-condition","tag-vehicle-collisions","tag-winnipeg","tag-young-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915634","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=915634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}