{"id":90650,"date":"2026-01-06T02:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90650\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T02:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:18:12","slug":"student-taken-to-hospital-after-driver-crashes-into-njs-elizabeth-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90650\/","title":{"rendered":"Student taken to hospital after driver crashes into NJ&#8217;s Elizabeth High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"uxxbc\">A student was taken to the hospital after a driver crashed into Elizabeth High School in New Jersey on Monday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"feqq3\">The driver was driving erratically near Bridge and Pearl streets in Elizabeth, in Union County, around 8 a.m. when they went through a red light, according to a city spokesperson. The driver jumped the curb and careened into the exterior wall of the school&#8217;s Dwyer Auditorium, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"e77da\">The student reported a minor leg injury and was transported to Beth Israel Hospital for evaluation, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"913s5\">The driver had minor injuries and was taken to University Hospital for treatment, the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9kdgc\">Authorities have not publicly identified the driver and said they are still investigating the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4dpgs\">No one else was injured in the incident, Elizabeth officials said. The school is now in session as normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A student was taken to the hospital after a driver crashed into Elizabeth High School in New Jersey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-90650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}