{"id":114957,"date":"2026-02-16T02:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114957\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T02:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:06:32","slug":"child-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-in-erie-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114957\/","title":{"rendered":"Child killed in hit-and-run crash in Erie, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police said the crash happened around 4:40 p.m. Sunday in the neighborhood northeast of Mountain View Boulevard and Village Vista Drive.<\/p>\n<p>ERIE, Colo. \u2014 A 2-year-old child was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Erie Sunday afternoon, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said the crash happened around 4:40 p.m. Sunday in the neighborhood northeast of Mountain View Boulevard and Village Vista Drive. First responders responded immediately, but the child died despite lifesaving efforts, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver left the scene. Anyone with information that may help the investigation is asked to call Boulder County dispatch at 303-441-4444.<\/p>\n<p>Erie police said this was the third serious traffic crash in the town this weekend. Just after midnight Sunday morning, a driver was killed and a passenger was seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash on Erie Parkway, police said. Both victims were 18-year-old men from Commerce City. Police said the initial investigation indicates the driver was speeding when he crossed the median and hit a guardrail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday night just before 10 p.m., police said, a 15-year-old on an electric motorized vehicle was seriously injured in a collision with a car at the intersection of Erie Parkway and Briggs Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said the crash happened around 4:40 p.m. Sunday in the neighborhood northeast of Mountain View Boulevard and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-114957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114957","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=114957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}