{"id":133597,"date":"2026-03-09T16:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133597\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:19:09","slug":"nj-transit-bus-fatally-strikes-pedestrian-in-center-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133597\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Transit bus fatally strikes pedestrian in Center City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 50-year-old man died Sunday night after being struck by a NJ Transit bus in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/tags\/old-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Old City<\/a>, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The man was struck at 5:50 p.m. on Arch Street, near Independence Mall, police said. His name has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/pennsylvania-state-trooper-murder-suicide-chester-county\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania state trooper fatally shot in apparent murder-suicide in Chester County<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nHe was pronounced dead at the scene by the Philadelphia Fire Department&#8217;s Medic Unit at 5:55 p.m.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Philadelphia Police Department&#8217;s Crash Investigation Division is investigating the man&#8217;s death. NJ Transit declined to comment, citing the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 50-year-old man died Sunday night after being struck by a NJ Transit bus in Old City, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1157,61728,6551,693,1752,69,71,70,6080],"class_list":["post-133597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-center-city","tag-fatal-accidents","tag-independence-mall","tag-investigations","tag-nj-transit","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133597","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=133597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}