{"id":180412,"date":"2026-04-30T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180412\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:16:08","slug":"police-activity-shuts-down-roads-in-lower-merion-township-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180412\/","title":{"rendered":"Police activity shuts down roads in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several local police departments are responding to an unspecified incident in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, images from Chopper 3 show.<\/p>\n<p>Police vehicles from Lower Merion, Haverford Township and Marple Township are at the intersection of City Avenue and Wynnewood Road surrounding a vehicle that appears to have crashed into a traffic light pole.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before 1 p.m., officers could be seen with a K-9 unit sniffing around the vehicle that had crashed.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lower-merion-chopper-3.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"lower-merion-chopper-3.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Chopper 3\/CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve reached out to the departments involved and our sources and are working to get more information.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re driving nearby, avoid the intersection as traffic is heavy due to the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several local police departments are responding to an unspecified incident in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, images&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[212,80503,183,185,184,186,28,69],"class_list":["post-180412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-delaware-county","tag-haverford-avenue","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180412","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=180412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}