{"id":184692,"date":"2026-05-05T21:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184692\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:12:08","slug":"stolen-truck-runs-red-light-crashes-into-playground-outside-southwest-philadelphia-school-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184692\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen truck runs red light, crashes into playground outside Southwest Philadelphia school, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stolen utility truck sped through a red light and crashed into a playground outside Mitchell Elementary in Southwest Philadelphia on Tuesday afternoon, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The person driving the truck has been taken into custody, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at around 2:30 p.m. outside the school at 55th Street and Kingsessing Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said the truck was stolen in Southwest Philly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/snapshot.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"snapshot.jpg \" height=\"348\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Illusions Soul Food Express<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video obtained by CBS News Philadelphia shows the stolen utility truck running a red light and hitting a Subaru before it crashed at the playground. The driver of the Subaru was taken to the hospital, according to police. Their condition wasn&#8217;t immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/55th-st-and-kingsessing-ave-playground-crash-050526-frame-1500.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"55th-st-and-kingsessing-ave-playground-crash-050526-frame-1500.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A stolen utility truck sped through a red light and crashed into a playground outside Mitchell Elementary in Southwest Philadelphia on Tuesday afternoon, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>About 10 to 15 students were on the playground at the time of the crash, but none of them were injured, according to an official at Mitchell Elementary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A crossing guard working nearby helped pull students to safety after the truck crashed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was crazy like the &#8216;Matrix,'&#8221; the crossing guard said. &#8220;He runs the red light, smacks a lady, does a &#8216;360, I bob and weave, I&#8217;m thankful. Thank you, Jesus, for letting me be alive.&#8221;<\/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 stolen utility truck sped through a red light and crashed into a playground outside Mitchell Elementary in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,2653],"class_list":["post-184692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-southwest-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184692","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=184692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}