{"id":183500,"date":"2026-05-04T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183500\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:40:14","slug":"driver-on-the-run-after-hitting-patrol-car-and-crashing-into-a-west-philadelphia-apartment-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183500\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver on the run after hitting patrol car and crashing into a West Philadelphia apartment, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver is on the run after being involved in two hit-and-run crashes in West Philadelphia that damaged a police car and sent at least one person to the hospital Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The first crash happened shortly after 3:30 a.m. at Spruce and South St. Bernard streets in the Walnut Hill neighborhood, where police said the driver of a blue Tesla hit a police cruiser before fleeing from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The car had minor damage and the officers inside were not hurt, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later, officers responded to a crash at 51st and Walnut streets in Cobbs Creek, where they believe the same Tesla collided with a sedan at the intersection and then crashed into a nearby apartment.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/new-yt-thumbnail.png#.png\" alt=\"Police looking for Tesla driver involved in two hit-and-run crashes \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Police looking for Tesla driver involved in two hit-and-run crashes<\/p>\n<p>                CBS Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>The sedan driver was taken to Penn Presbyterian, and the Tesla driver ran away on foot. Witnesses said the driver was last seen heading north on Walnut Street.<\/p>\n<p>The couple who lives in the ground-floor apartment told CBS News Philadelphia they used to sleep in the room that sustained the most damage, but moved their bedroom because of concerns about the dangerous intersection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t feel safe being on this road because of how many times people crash,&#8221; said Scarlett Delorme. Delorme said the room hit by the car was being used as a photography studio and filled with all her gear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t even assess any of that yet, but it was scary, because it was still smoking,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are still searching for the driver involved in both crashes and ask anyone who has information or surveillance video from either crash to contact police.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver is on the run after being involved in two hit-and-run crashes in West Philadelphia that damaged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11355,31,12056,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-183500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-cobbs-creek","tag-crime","tag-hit-and-run","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183500","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=183500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}