{"id":210255,"date":"2026-06-04T05:16:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210255\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:16:31","slug":"philadelphia-officer-hit-by-car-while-directing-traffic-after-phillies-game-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210255\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia officer hit by car while directing traffic after Phillies game, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Philadelphia officer directing traffic after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/cristopher-sanchez-scoreless-streak-ends\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phillies game<\/a> was hit by a car Wednesday night, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It happened at around 9:20 p.m. at Broad Street and Packer Avenue, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/packer-ave-police-officer-hit-by-car-frame-1211.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"packer-ave-police-officer-hit-by-car-frame-1211.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A Philadelphia officer directing traffic after the Phillies game was hit by a car Wednesday night, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Police said the officer was taken to a local hospital with a leg injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver in the striking vehicle stayed on the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what led to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Philadelphia officer directing traffic after the Phillies game was hit by a car Wednesday night, police said.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,2245,1425],"class_list":["post-210255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police","tag-philadelphia-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210255","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=210255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}