{"id":196136,"date":"2026-05-19T00:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196136\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T00:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:46:07","slug":"teen-in-critical-condition-after-being-hit-by-jeep-in-northeast-philadelphia-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196136\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen in critical condition after being hit by Jeep in Northeast Philadelphia, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager is in critical condition after a hit-and-run crash Monday afternoon in Northeast Philadelphia, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A driver in a silver Jeep Liberty hit the 16-year-old as he crossed Horrocks Street on Cottman Avenue around 3 p.m., according to Philadelphia police.<\/p>\n<p>Medics took the teen, who has severe head and leg injuries, to the hospital, where he is listed in critical condition, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver fled the scene, but a witness followed him and gave information about the car and its license plate to police. The driver, a 20-year-old man, then parked the car near the scene on Large Street, where officers found it, and went to the 2nd Police District to report the crash, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating the crash. Authorities have not shared the driver&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager is in critical condition after a hit-and-run crash Monday afternoon in Northeast Philadelphia, police said.\u00a0 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1540,12056,2327,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-196136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-car-crash","tag-hit-and-run","tag-northeast-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196136","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=196136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}