{"id":933364,"date":"2026-10-15T01:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933364\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T01:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:18:35","slug":"pedestrian-struck-killed-in-barrhaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933364\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian struck, killed in Barrhaven"},"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 1 minute<\/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 class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">A 60-year-old man was struck and killed by a vehicle Wednesday morning in Ottawa&#8217;s Barrhaven neighbourhood, according to paramedics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Emergency crews were called to the busy intersection of Strandherd and Cresthaven drives around 6:20 a.m., paramedics said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, according to paramedics. Ottawa police have not released the pedestrian&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Police closed Strandherd between Woodroffe Avenue and Prince of Wales Drive until late Wednesday morning. Investigators were focusing on a dark grey sedan in the taped-off area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Anyone who witnessed the incident or has pertinent footage is asked to contact police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Ottawa police data says 29 people have now died on the city&#8217;s roads in 2026, including eight pedestrians. Both statistics are higher than normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Common factors in these fatal crashes include speeding and impaired or distracted driving, police said. They have not disclosed the cause of Wednesday&#8217;s fatal collision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-933364","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\/933364","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=933364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}