Witnesses sought after SUV strikes woman, 51, on Ottawa’s Huntmar Drive

Ottawa police have asked witnesses to help explain how an SUV struck a 51-year-old woman on Huntmar Drive. But the most urgent question extends beyond the investigation: what happened to her after she reached hospital with injuries serious enough to threaten her life? No medical outcome beyond Sunday morning’s critical-condition account has been verified. ^{4 5}

The collision happened Saturday, October 24, 2026, in the 300 block of Huntmar Drive in Kanata, near the Canadian Tire Centre. Police issued their witness appeal at 8:15 a.m. the next morning. That appeal remains the latest verified police development—not a finding about what caused the collision. ^{4 3}

Police said the woman was transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries. CityNews’s October 25 report, posted at 10:41 a.m., described her condition as critical. As of October 26, that is a dated account, not a newly confirmed medical assessment. There is no verified subsequent report of recovery, stabilization, discharge or death. ^{4 5}

The emergency accounts contain two nearby times that need to be kept separate. Ottawa Police said officers responded at approximately 6:17 p.m. CTV’s initial broadcast account, attributing its information to Ottawa paramedics, placed the collision at about 6:20 p.m. Neither figure establishes an exact moment of impact. ^{4 1}

Read as precise timestamps, those numbers would seem to put the response before the collision. But both were given as estimates, and they describe different stages of the emergency. The evidence does not support calculating a response interval from them or treating either as a minute-by-minute reconstruction. ^{4 1}

The police statement provides the firmer description of what officers attended: a pedestrian struck by an SUV in a specified block. It does not establish the movements that brought the woman and vehicle together. The time and location narrow the event investigators are asking about; they do not explain it. ⁴

That distinction also matters for responsibility. Whether the driver remained at the scene has not been established, and no charging decision has been verified. Those gaps are not evidence that the driver left, that no charges exist, or that either person was at fault. The witness appeal should not be read as an accusation. ⁴

The confirmed police location is the 300 block of Huntmar Drive, rather than a named intersection or a precise point where the SUV struck the woman. Written coverage identifies nearby Campeau Drive. That helps orient readers, but it does not turn the nearby road into a police-confirmed collision site. ^{4 15}

The distinction is worth preserving because early descriptions were less exact. The initial CTV broadcast account rendered the nearby road as “Campo Drive”; matching written coverage uses Campeau Drive. The police block number is the clearest location to use without claiming more precision than investigators have supplied. ^{1 15 4}

CTV also reported an investigative closure on Huntmar Drive north of the Queensway, between Cyclone Taylor Boulevard and the road rendered in that account as Campo Drive. That was a report about the evening of October 24. Its precise limits and duration have not been independently verified. ¹

No incident-specific reopening time has been established, but neither has a continuing closure. The absence of a reopening notice is not a reason to tell motorists that Huntmar Drive remains shut on October 26. The reported closure belongs to the history of the emergency, not a current traffic advisory.

For now, the public account establishes a severe injury and an investigation seeking witnesses. It does not establish the woman’s later medical outcome or explain how she was struck. Those are the consequential updates still missing: what happened to her, and what investigators can substantiate about the collision. ^{4 5}