{"id":175032,"date":"2026-04-24T16:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175032\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:58:09","slug":"video-shows-car-hitting-child-leaving-scene-in-reading-witness-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175032\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows car hitting child, leaving scene in Reading: witness \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating a hit-and-run that happened Friday morning in Reading, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Dashcam video captured by a witness shows the moment when a black Nissan sedan hits a person, believed to be a child, as they were crossing the road at the intersection of Windsor and Front Streets around 7:15 a.m. on April 24.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: The video may be disturbing to some viewers. Discretion is advised.<\/p>\n<p>The video then shows the car stopping for about three seconds and then driving away.<\/p>\n<p>It appears the victim was able to move to the sidewalk after being hit, and bystanders, including the witness who captured the video, stopped to help them.<\/p>\n<p>The victim&#8217;s condition is unknown at this time.<\/p>\n<p>According to the witness, the victim is a child who was on their way to school. However, the Reading Police Department has not given any details regarding the victim&#8217;s age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telemundo62.com\/noticias\/local\/atropello-fuga-calles-windsor-front-reading-pa\/2576423\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Lee esta historia en espa\u00f1ol aqu\u00ed.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating a hit-and-run that happened Friday morning in Reading, Pennsylvania. Dashcam video captured by a witness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-175032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175032","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=175032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}