{"id":208476,"date":"2026-06-02T15:23:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208476\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:23:40","slug":"investigation-underway-into-erie-police-cruiser-crash-saturday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208476\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway into Erie police cruiser crash Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Traffic investigators from the City of Erie Police Department are investigating after a car accident between one of their cruisers and another car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That incident, captured by Jacob Himelein on Facebook, happened Saturday evening just after 7 pm at the intersection of East 5th and Parade streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/lake-city-man-dies-in-tractor-accident-involving-tree\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Lake City man dies in tractor accident involving tree;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Lake City man dies in tractor accident involving tree&quot;}\"> Lake City man dies in tractor accident involving tree <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the police chief, officers were responding to a gun call traveling eastbound on 5th, when they struck a vehicle traveling southbound on Parade.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The two officers and two people in the other vehicle were treated and since released from UPMC Hamot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic investigators from the City of Erie Police Department are investigating after a car accident between one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1602,136,138,137,1591,91497,91498],"class_list":["post-208476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-car-accident","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-facebook","tag-jacob-himelein","tag-traffic-investigators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208476","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=208476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}