{"id":947494,"date":"2026-10-26T23:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947494\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T23:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:52:22","slug":"driver-allegedly-runs-over-man-lying-on-sidewalk-twice-calgary-police-say-brandon-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947494\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver allegedly runs over man lying on sidewalk twice, Calgary police say \u2013 Brandon Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY \u2013 Calgary police say a driver allegedly ran over a man twice as he was lying on the sidewalk outside a Sikh place of worship.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a man in his 50s tried to turn into the parking lot at a gurdwara just east of the airport Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police say he drove over the man on the sidewalk and realized the parking lot was closed.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ed0d1f808d3a12487855c17059465b08f2b9043060f780278f846eb5c5dcf706.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"1024\" data-pswp-height=\"747\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ed0d1f808d3a12487855c17059465b08f2b9043060f780278f846eb5c5dcf706.jpg\" alt=\"A Calgary Police Service inspector wears a utility vest in Calgary on Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jeff McIntosh\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA Calgary Police Service inspector wears a utility vest in Calgary on Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jeff McIntosh<\/p>\n<p>They allege he then reversed over the man\u2019s body on his way to search for another parking spot before bystanders alerted him.<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken to hospital and later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police are continuing to investigate the situation, including why the man was on the sidewalk and whether there will be charges laid against the driver.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published on Oct. 26, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Note to readers:This is a corrected story. A previous version said the gurdwara is west of the Calgary airport. In fact, it\u2019s to the east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2013 Calgary police say a driver allegedly ran over a man twice as he was lying on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-947494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947494","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=947494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}