{"id":165935,"date":"2026-04-15T00:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165935\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T00:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:17:35","slug":"crash-into-back-of-police-car-has-erie-man-facing-criminal-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165935\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash into back of police car has Erie man facing criminal charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 13, 2026, 1:52 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">An Erie man is facing recklessly endangering, driving under the influence and summary traffic charges after city police accused him of crashing into the back of a police patrol vehicle that was stopped at a red light on West 12th Street April 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The officer and the driver of the vehicle that hit him were both taken to the hospital after the accident, which was reported April 12 at about 1:30 a.m. at West 12th Street and Lincoln Avenue, police reported April 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 13, 2026, 1:52 p.m. ET An Erie man is facing recklessly endangering, driving under the influence and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[596,136,138,137,539,10598,10599,1864,1859,2673,650,2318,1866,74799,74800,1143,1860,1865,651,648,7588,535],"class_list":{"0":"post-165935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-accessmetered","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-headlines","11":"tag-erie-news","12":"tag-pa","13":"tag-sstsnewsaccident","14":"tag-sstsnaccident","15":"tag-tagaccidents-disasters","16":"tag-tagcar-accidents-and-crashes","17":"tag-tagcrime","18":"tag-tagcrime-justice","19":"tag-tagcriminal-investigations","20":"tag-tagdisaster-accident-and-tragedy","21":"tag-tagdrunk-driving","22":"tag-tagdrunk-driving-law","23":"tag-tagerie","24":"tag-tagerie-bureau-of-police","25":"tag-taglaw-enforcement","26":"tag-taglocal-news","27":"tag-tagoverall-negative","28":"tag-tagvehicle-codes-driving-laws","29":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165935","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=165935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}