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A two-year-old boy was killed in a collision at a shopping centre in northeast Calgary late Sunday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The child was struck by a taxi in the parking lot near the Winner\u2019s in the 2500 block of 36th Street N.E., after he ran into the parking lot thoroughfare.<\/p>\n
The driver of the taxi took the victim and family to the nearby Peter Lougheed hospital, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Traffic Unit Staff Sgt. Andy Woodward said the driver “made a decision, which I think was the right decision with the Peter Lougheed right next door. Had it been any other hospital, then obviously we would’ve waited for an ambulance to come.”<\/p>\n
The child later died from his injuries. <\/p>\n
Woodward said police are still in the early stages of investigating, but they believe the child “slipped the hand of his father” and ran out into a road that separates two parking lots. <\/p>\n
Woodward said the driver has been cooperative with the investigation. <\/p>\n
10 pedestrian deaths this year: police<\/p>\n
This is the second pedestrian fatality in the last week. A man was struck and killed<\/a> in Martindale in the city’s northeast on Oct. 26. Another pedestrian collision the next day prompted warnings from police and a city councillor for drivers and pedestrians to pay attention as daylight hours dwindle<\/a>. <\/p>\n In September, a women was struck and killed by a bus<\/a> in the southwest community of Somerset. <\/p>\n According to police, there have been 27 fatal collisions in the city this year resulting in 33 deaths, 10 of which were pedestrians. <\/p>\n Safety a concern on Alberta roads<\/p>\n A June report to city council<\/a> showed road safety in Calgary was trending in the wrong direction and RCMP said in September that 2026 was on track to be the deadliest year on Alberta roads. <\/p>\n This weekend saw another two fatal accidents on the province’s highways. <\/p>\n A teenager was killed and two other people seriously injured in a crash near the town of Bassano<\/a>. A separate rollover incident northwest<\/a> of Calgary near the town of Cremona killed two and left another person in critical condition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-955984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955984","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=955984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}