{"id":936986,"date":"2026-10-17T23:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T23:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936986\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T23:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T23:58:11","slug":"driver-charged-after-2-pedestrians-hit-in-smiths-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936986\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver charged after 2 pedestrians hit in Smiths Falls"},"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 woman faces several criminal charges after two pedestrians were struck by a vehicle Friday evening in Smiths Falls, Ont., local police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The two people were walking along the south end of Empress Avenue just before 8 p.m. when they were struck by a silver Cadillac, the Smiths Falls Police Service said in a news release Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The Cadillac then left the road and collided with a fence, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Both pedestrians were taken to Ottawa trauma centres with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">As for the driver, police said she abandoned the vehicle a short distance away and fled. She was apprehended roughly two hours later and remains in custody pending a bail hearing, they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Police have not identified her or said what specific charges she is facing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Smiths Falls police are asking anyone who saw the crash or captured it on video to come forward.<\/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":936987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-936986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936986","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=936986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}