{"id":21111,"date":"2025-10-31T19:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21111\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:55:07","slug":"update-on-2-injured-in-upper-darby-when-fence-blows-over-delco-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21111\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on 2 injured in Upper Darby when fence blows over \u2013 Delco Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman and teen were taken to a hospital Thursday morning after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delcotimes.com\/2025\/10\/30\/2-taken-to-hospital-after-wind-blows-fence-onto-woman-and-teen-outside-former-delco-memorial-hospital\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">high winds blew fencing<\/a> over in the area of Keystone and Lansdowne avenues in Upper Darby.<\/p>\n<p>Township police and EMS personnel responded about 8:30 a.m. for a report of a construction sign that had fallen on two pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>A police report states the victims were near located the former Monsignor Bonner &amp; Prendergast High School entrance at 403 N. Lansdowne Ave.<\/p>\n<p>A construction fence with a sign on it fell over and struck the victims, police said. The teen, a 14-year-old, was taken to Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the 22-year-old adult to Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The police report states the fence belongs to the construction company Ernest Bock &amp; Sons Inc., which is working on the new Delaware County Community College annex called the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.delcotimes.com\/2025\/09\/02\/prendie-alums-embrace-beloved-school-buildings-next-chapter-as-dccc-site\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Southeast Center,<\/a> which is expected to open in early 2026.<\/p>\n<p>This clarifies an earlier police summary report indicating the incident happened outside the former Delaware County Memorial Hospital, which was purchased by Upper Darby School District in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman and teen were taken to a hospital Thursday morning after high winds blew fencing over in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,212,182,139,28,210,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-21111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-delaware-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-dtd","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111","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=21111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}