{"id":159856,"date":"2026-04-07T21:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159856\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:49:08","slug":"philadelphia-man-dies-in-route-1-crash-in-bensalem-after-exiting-vehicle-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159856\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia man dies in Route 1 crash in Bensalem after exiting vehicle, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 45-year-old Philadelphia man died in a crash on Route 1 in Bensalem Tuesday morning when he exited his vehicle after it was experiencing mechanical difficulties, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the 45-year-old as Julio Ricardo Munoz.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at around 5:30 a.m. in the southbound lanes of Route 1 in Bensalem, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Munoz was driving his 2007 Honda Fit and stopped in a southbound lane of Route 1 because it was experiencing mechanical issues. He then exited the vehicle, and the Honda was struck by a 2022 Kia Seltos, police said. The impact caused the Honda to strike Munoz, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said the Honda was also struck by a \u00a02017 Jeep Cherokee. Munoz sustained fatal injuries in the crash that involved three vehicles, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A passenger was in the front seat of the Honda with Munoz and sustained non-life-threatening injuries, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said drugs and alcohol do not appear to have played a role in the crash at this time. The incident is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 45-year-old Philadelphia man died in a crash on Route 1 in Bensalem Tuesday morning when he exited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,197,69],"class_list":["post-159856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-bucks-county","tag-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159856","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=159856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}