{"id":115682,"date":"2026-02-17T01:09:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115682\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:09:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:09:25","slug":"child-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-in-erie-police-say-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115682\/","title":{"rendered":"Child killed in hit-and-run crash in Erie, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 2-year-old child was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Erie Sunday afternoon, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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":"A 2-year-old child was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Erie Sunday afternoon, police said. Police said the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1675,136,138,137,5585,17644],"class_list":{"0":"post-115682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-boulder-county","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-headlines","11":"tag-erie-news","12":"tag-erie-police","13":"tag-sunday-afternoon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115682","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=115682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}