{"id":919589,"date":"2026-10-03T22:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919589\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T22:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:52:11","slug":"truck-collides-with-pole-pinning-vancouver-driver-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919589\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck collides with pole, pinning Vancouver driver inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A single vehicle crash involving a pickup truck and a pole, resulted in the jaws of life being needed to get the driver out.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday evening, around 6:30 p.m., a pickup truck collided with a pole, hit a bus stop and ended up in the middle of the sidewalk at Kingsway Avenue and Perry Street, just outside True Carnivores Kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>According to Vancouver Fire Rescue Services, the driver of the truck was pinned inside.<\/p>\n<p>Once the crew was able to get the driver out of the truck, they were taken by BC Emergency Health Services to the hospital with serious and significant injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Police Department said that the collision was likely caused by a medical issue experienced by the driver.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Vancouver 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=vancouver.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\/10\/1791067931_229_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":"A single vehicle crash involving a pickup truck and a pole, resulted in the jaws of life being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-919589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919589","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=919589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}