{"id":948302,"date":"2026-10-27T15:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948302\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T15:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:46:14","slug":"pedestrian-struck-and-killed-crossing-vancouver-street-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948302\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian struck and killed crossing Vancouver street: police"},"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 45-year-old woman has died after being hit by a vehicle in Vancouver just after midnight on Sunday, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The woman was struck by an SUV travelling southbound as she crossed at a marked crosswalk at Main Street at National Avenue, according to a Tuesday news release from the Vancouver Police Department (VPD).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The driver remained at the scene, and police do not believe alcohol or substance use were factors, the release said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">&#8220;It was dark and raining heavily at the time,&#8221; VPD said in the release. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">&#8220;Police are once again calling for additional caution on the roads this season as visibility becomes more challenging for both pedestrians and drivers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Police say the woman was the second pedestrian struck in Vancouver in just a few days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Three days earlier, a seven-year-old girl was hurt when she was hit by a vehicle at East Pender Street and Victoria Drive, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Police say the girl was released from hospital with minor injuries.<\/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":948303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-948302","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\/948302","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=948302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}