{"id":112992,"date":"2026-02-13T11:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112992\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:51:15","slug":"man-killed-in-high-speed-crash-in-philadelphias-torresdale-neighborhood-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112992\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in high-speed crash in Philadelphia&#8217;s Torresdale neighborhood, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has died following a high speed crash in Philadelphia&#8217;s Torresdale neighborhood in the early hours of Friday morning, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The man was traveling at an extremely high rate of speed when he crashed into several parked cars on the 9400 block of Frankford Avenue, near Pearson Avenue, just before 1 a.m., Philadelphia Police Capt. Christopher Bradshaw told CBS News Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man, believed to be in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Bradshaw said the force of the crash was so strong that the vehicle&#8217;s engine was launched into the middle of the roadway and the man in the car was thrown to the rear of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/frankford-ave-fatal-crash-raw-021326-frame-8496.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"frankford-ave-fatal-crash-raw-021326-frame-8496.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>The crash closed Frankford Avenue overnight but it reopened around 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators on the scene were combing through the crushed remnants of a gray Kia SUV.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Gas Works was also called to the scene after a strong odor of gas was reported following the crash. It is unclear if any gas lines were impacted.<\/p>\n<p>Bradshaw called it one of the worst crashes he&#8217;s seen in his career.<\/p>\n<p>The cause remains under investigation by the Philadelphia Police Department&#8217;s Crash Investigation Unit. Anyone with any information or video from this crash is asked to contact police.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died following a high speed crash in Philadelphia&#8217;s Torresdale neighborhood in the early hours of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1540,6977,5579,2327,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-112992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-car-crash","tag-fatal-crash","tag-frankford-avenue","tag-northeast-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}