{"id":197487,"date":"2026-09-05T18:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/197487\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T18:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:12:07","slug":"man-dead-after-motorcycle-crash-in-northwest-calgary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/197487\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead after motorcycle crash in northwest Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say a 19-year-old man is dead after his motorcycle crashed in the community of Evanston in northwest Calgary on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash happened after 4 p.m. at Symons Valley Parkway N.W. and Evanston View N.W.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the motorcycle was the sole vehicle involved in the crash, and no one else was hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Symons Valley Parkway N.W. was closed between Evanspark Circle and Evanston View N.W. for several hours following the crash, before reopening Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the man&#8217;s next of kin have been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Back-to-back rollovers on Deerfoot Trail<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There was also a serious collision on Deerfoot Trail at 17th Ave. S.E. just after midnight on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A semi-truck rolled over on Deerfoot Trail near 17th Ave S.E., and then police say a passenger vehicle also rolled over.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/cbc.ca\/27484bcbda1f835ffd040e324359c704.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A semi-truck rolled over on Deerfoot Trail near 17th Ave. S.E., and then police say a passenger vehicle then also rolled over. (X\/YYC Transportation)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said a semi-truck rolled over in the northbound lanes. Then, another vehicle driving by also rolled over, and three people were ejected from it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While their injuries were initially thought to be serious, police later said their injuries were not serious, though all three were taken to hospital as a precaution. The status of the semi-truck driver was not available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Northbound Deerfoot Trail was closed at Peigan Trail for several hours before reopening on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a 19-year-old man is dead after his motorcycle crashed in the community of Evanston in northwest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[51,37608,47285,61855,61853,43882,61856,61854],"class_list":["post-197487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-calgary","tag-deerfoot-trail","tag-evanston","tag-evanston-view-n-w","tag-evanston-view-n-w-police","tag-friday","tag-s-e","tag-symons-valley-parkway-n-w"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}