{"id":205033,"date":"2026-05-29T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205033\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:42:08","slug":"13-year-old-bicyclist-hit-by-car-in-southwest-philadelphia-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205033\/","title":{"rendered":"13-year-old bicyclist hit by car in Southwest Philadelphia, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 13-year-old bicyclist was critically injured after being hit by a car in Southwest Philadelphia Thursday night, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened in the area of Island Avenue and Lindbergh Boulevard at around 7:45 p.m., according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said a person driving a Ford Fusion was traveling northbound on Island Avenue when they struck a 13-year-old boy riding a bike. The teen was heading westbound on Lindbergh Boulevard and crossing Island Avenue, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-year-old was taken to Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia, where he was placed in critical condition, police said. The driver of the Ford Fusion remained on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 13-year-old bicyclist was critically injured after being hit by a car in Southwest Philadelphia Thursday night, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,2653],"class_list":["post-205033","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\/205033","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=205033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}