{"id":201962,"date":"2025-10-04T17:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/201962\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T17:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:43:10","slug":"josh-hartnett-hospitalized-following-car-crash-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/201962\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hartnett hospitalized following car crash in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Josh Hartnett was taken to a hospital in Canada last week after the SUV he was travelling in was struck by a Royal Newfoundland Constabulary vehicle in St John\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The news came to light that the 47-year-old actor was a passenger in the car when the crash occurred at around 1am on Thursday last week, according to CBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The vehicle, driven by a 59-year-old man whose name has not been released, was hit by the police car at the intersection of New Cove Road and Elizabeth Avenue.<\/p>\n

The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said: \u201cAs a precaution, one of our officers was also transported to hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officials added Josh, his driver and the officer were all assessed for minor injuries by medical staff. Both vehicles were said to have been \u201csignificantly damaged\u201d in the collision.<\/p>\n

Investigators have appealed for witnesses and for anyone with video of the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n

Josh had been returning from work on a Netflix production that has yet to be formally titled.<\/p>\n

The project \u2013 referred to locally as the \u201cuntitled Netflix Newfoundland series\u201d \u2013 features a cast including Mackenzie Davis, Darrin Baker, Charlie Heaton, Tanchay Redvers, Joshua Close, Rohan Campbell, Ruby Stokes, Kaleb Horn, Willow Kean and Natasha Henstridge.<\/p>\n

In an Instagram post announcing the series, Netflix described the plot as following \u201ca hard-bitten fisherman discovers that his hometown is being terrorized by a mysterious creature\u201d and showed a picture of Josh taking a selfie with some of the cast.<\/p>\n

Police said enquiries into the crash are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Hartnett was taken to a hospital in Canada last week after the SUV he was travelling in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[103,19093,236,88,1493,111711,116303,116304,116302,116305],"class_list":["post-201962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-canada","tag-car-crash","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hospital","tag-josh-hartnett","tag-minor-injuries","tag-netflix-production","tag-royal-newfoundland-constabulary","tag-witnesses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}