A mom was seriously injured and a man arrested after a hunk of metal was thrown off the 53 Avenue overpass where several other such incidents have taken place in recent months.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.A mom sitting beside her infant was seriously injured when a hunk of metal was thrown off the 53 Avenue overpass of Whitemud Drive.A mother was taken to hospital with serious injuries and a man arrested after a hunk of metal was thrown off a southwest Edmonton overpass. Several other such incidents have taken place there in recent months.
At that time, police released video showing a man walking along the bridge before crouching behind a banner hung from the railing, and then throwing the objects before walking away.Police were called to that overpass the afternoon of Saturday, Feb. 10. According to the Edmonton Police Service, a man was standing on the 53 Avenue overpass when he threw a concrete slab into westbound traffic below.
The chunk of concrete hit the windshield of a grey Subaru Outback and a man in the passenger seat suffered minor injuries.Chunk of concrete, other objects thrown off Whitemud overpasses has Edmonton police seeking suspectThe first reported incident took place on Thursday Dec. 28, 2023, police said. Police are investigating whether the most recent event that left the mother injured is linked to the nine previous incidents involving objects thrown off the Whitemud overpass onto moving vehicles.Anyone who has information about the suspect’s identity or video footage related to these incidents is asked to contact the EPS at 780-423-4567More than 20 years ago, a man was killed when an object was thrown onto the Whitemud.
Robert Stanley, 75, died from a blow to his abdomen on June 1, 2002, when a 30-pound boulder the size of a basketball was dropped from a pedestrian bridge near 111 Street and crashed through the windshield of the school bus he was driving.FILE: Robert Stanley, 75, died when a basketball-size rock was dropped from a pedestrian bridge near 111 Street and crashed through the windshield of the school bus he was driving on June 1, 2002.
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