{"id":138833,"date":"2026-03-15T10:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138833\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:52:18","slug":"woman-dies-after-tree-falls-on-car-in-lower-merion-police-say-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138833\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after tree falls on car in Lower Merion, police say \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 59-year-old woman has died after a large tree fell and struck her vehicle as she drove in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/tag\/lower-merion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Lower Merion<\/a> on Sunday, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at around 1:44 p.m. when a blue Toyota Corolla and a white Nissan Altima were both traveling westbound on Lancaster Avenue, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The large tree fell into the roadway, hitting both cars, police said. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telemundo62.com\/noticias\/local\/arbol-caido-aplasta-conductoras-una-muere-lancaster-avenue-lower-merion-pensilvania\/2493527\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">L\u00e9elo\u00a0en espa\u00f1ol aqu\u00ed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The woman driving the Toyota was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, where she was pronounced dead at 2:20 p.m., police said. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, a 64-year-old man was in the Nissan and he was also taken to the hospital, but is listed in stable condition. <\/p>\n<p>Lancaster Avenue was closed between Remington Road and Clover Hill Road as police investigated, but the roadway has since been reopened, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing and being carried by the Lower Merion Police Department&#8217;s Traffic Safety Unit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 59-year-old woman has died after a large tree fell and struck her vehicle as she drove in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-138833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138833","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=138833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}