{"id":220760,"date":"2026-06-16T20:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220760\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:45:13","slug":"police-8-year-old-struck-injured-by-vehicle-in-easton-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220760\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: 8\u2011year\u2011old struck, injured by vehicle in Easton | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EASTON, Pa. &#8211;\u00a0An 8\u2011year\u2011old child was struck by a vehicle Tuesday afternoon in Easton.<\/p>\n<p>According to Captain Crisafulli with the Easton Police Department, the crash happened around noon at North Locust and Sassafras streets.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Police: 8&#x2011;year&#x2011;old struck, injured by vehicle in Easton\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a3199d7ce2d2.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>The child suffered what police described as \u201csurvivable injuries\u201d and was taken to a local hospital for treatment and observation, according to the captain.<\/p>\n<p>A police reconstruction team was at the scene, but officers have since wrapped up the on-scene investigation.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"8&#x2011;year&#x2011;old struck, injured by vehicle in Easton\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a319a0e8a6ce.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, the driver stayed at the scene and is fully cooperating with police.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. &#8211;\u00a0An 8\u2011year\u2011old child was struck by a vehicle Tuesday afternoon in Easton. According to Captain Crisafulli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,87133,96121,2181,6111,3628,1017,6967],"class_list":["post-220760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-child-injured","tag-driver-cooperation","tag-easton","tag-hospital","tag-police-investigation","tag-traffic-accident","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220760","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=220760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}