{"id":919583,"date":"2026-10-03T22:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919583\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T22:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:46:09","slug":"woman-2-children-dead-after-serious-collision-near-foam-lake-sask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919583\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 2 children dead after serious collision near Foam Lake, Sask."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A serious collision near Foam Lake, Sask., Friday afternoon has left three people dead. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday afternoon, a truck was attempting to pass a semi and collided with an SUV on a grid road about nine kilometres west of Foam Lake, RCMP said in a Saturday news release. Foam Lake is about 150 kilometres northeast of Regina.<\/p>\n<p>A 40-year old woman, an eight-year old girl and a five-year old girl, all from Foam Lake, were in the SUV and were declared dead at the scene by EMS.<\/p>\n<p>An adult man was also in the SUV and was taken to hospital by STARS with serious injuries, the release said. <\/p>\n<p>The driver of the truck was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and two passengers were also taken to hospital. One passenger had non-life-threatening injuries, according to EMS, while the other had serious injuries, according to STARS, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>The semi driver not not report any physical injuries to police and his semi was not damaged. <\/p>\n<p>RCMP say 40-year-old Kelly Knopf from Sumter, South Carolina, was arrested and charged with three counts each of dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death and dangerous operation of a vehicle causing bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p>He is scheduled to appear in Yorkton Provincial Court on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Wadena\/Foam Lake RCMP continue to investigate with the assistance of a Saskatchewan RCMP collision reconstructionist.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-919583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919583","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=919583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}