Man in hospital after severe crash in Transcona area
Posted May 24, 2026 3:39 pm.
Last Updated May 24, 2026 4:07 pm.
A serious crash took place around 2 a.m. on a residential street in the Transcona area. Residents say they are not surprised, as they’ve been sounding an alarm about the speeding issue in the area for a while now.
Police and paramedics were first to arrive at the scene of the car crash in the area of Murdoch Mackay School. At 2:08 a.m. STARS ambulance helicopter transported a male driver to the hospital in critical condition.
“Well, we live around the corner, and first thing this morning, my daughter woke up, and she’s like, ‘Oh my god, Mom, there was an accident in front of c pet and there was STARS,’ like that’s the part that really is alarming everybody, that it was an accident so bad that stars had to come inside the city to respond. So she said that her dog heard the accident and woke them all up, and they saw STARS come in, and they were attending to somebody on the street, apparently, so the speed is atrocious, like we live on that street back there, and it’s a throwaway. I can’t believe that nothing has happened on our street too, but here, like I said multiple times, there’s been cars come off of Victoria and land in that front yard,” Tracy Hoborough, a nearby resident, explained.
Pamela Heaphy, another nearby resident, said, “I heard the sirens and heard the helicopter come in, the stars. I was waiting up for my one son to get home, the last one. So, he was home, and then it was a few minutes after that, I heard everything. There’s always speeding. Obviously not to this extent, I don’t think. It’s more because you have kind of a bend in the road, so there’s a little bit of thrill there. You’ve got a long space between stop signs, which is not very common in Transcona, and so yeah, you do get speeders, but not enough to do this.”
Winnipeg police say the incident is currently being investigated by the traffic division. Redonda Street had been closed for investigators to process the scene, but has now been reopened to traffic.
“I just hope people start to realize that it’s not just you you’re hurting, it’s everybody else around. You know, like I was saying, my first instinct was where my kids, and then I’m going to my friend’s kids, ‘Ok, that’s their car.’ You know, then you’re kind of counting them out, so I think that’s kind of a big message, just be smart when you’re making these decisions,” said Heaphy.
