{"id":180820,"date":"2026-05-01T01:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180820\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T01:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:39:15","slug":"2-injured-in-center-city-crash-after-driver-ran-red-light-philadelphia-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180820\/","title":{"rendered":"2 injured in Center City crash after driver ran red light, Philadelphia police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old man was arrested after running a red light in Center City and causing a crash that injured two other people, Philadelphia police said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at the intersection of 16th and Lombard streets at around 2:50 p.m. Wednesday, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the 21-year-old man was driving a 2026 Dodge at a high rate of speed westbound on Lombard Street, disregarded a red light and crashed into a Land Rover. The Land Rover had the right-of-way heading northbound on 16th Street, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The crash caused the Land Rover to hit a traffic light and a pedestrian on the crosswalk, and the Dodge struck several parked cars, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A 22-year-old woman, who was a passenger inside the Land Rover, and a 36-year-old woman, who was a pedestrian, were both injured in the crash. Police said they were both taken to Jefferson University Hospital to be treated for their injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old driver of the Dodge attempted to flee the scene but was detained by civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Charges have yet to be announced, but the 21-year-old is still being processed, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 21-year-old man was arrested after running a red light in Center City and causing a crash that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1540,1157,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-180820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-car-crash","tag-center-city","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180820","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=180820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}