{"id":115351,"date":"2026-02-16T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115351\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:03:08","slug":"2-year-old-dies-in-erie-hit-and-run-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115351\/","title":{"rendered":"2-year-old dies in Erie hit-and-run crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 2-year-old died after being hit by a car on Sunday afternoon in southeast Erie. The driver fled the scene, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The toddler died after the crash around 4:40 p.m. east of Mountain View Boulevard and north of Village Vista Drive, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1Aft52vjQp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erie Police Department social media post<\/a>. Police and emergency responders tried to save the child, but they succumbed to their injuries, the post states.<\/p>\n<p>Police called the driver\u2019s choice to leave the scene illegal and \u201cdeeply troubling,\u201d and urged the driver to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no words that can ease the pain of such a loss,\u201d Erie police said in the post. \u201cWe extend our deepest sympathy to the family and ask the community to surround them with compassion and respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you have information about the incident, call 303-441-4444, police asked in the post.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 2-year-old died after being hit by a car on Sunday afternoon in southeast Erie. The driver fled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1675,1676,7250,202,136,138,137,1677,241,182,139,1704,1680],"class_list":{"0":"post-115351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-boulder-county","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-news","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-erie","13":"tag-erie-headlines","14":"tag-erie-news","15":"tag-front-range","16":"tag-latest-headlines","17":"tag-local-news","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-traffic","20":"tag-weld-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115351","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=115351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}