{"id":222623,"date":"2026-06-18T21:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222623\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:30:05","slug":"child-seriously-injured-in-e-bike-crash-in-lackawanna-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222623\/","title":{"rendered":"Child seriously injured in e-bike crash in Lackawanna County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crash happened at the intersection of Harwood Avenue and Earl Street just after 10 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>CLARKS SUMMIT, Pa. \u2014 A child is in the hospital after a crash involving an electric bicycle in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n<p>According to Clarks Summit Police, an 11-year-old boy was riding a motocross-style e-bike along Harwood Avenue in the borough Thursday morning when he failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of Earl Street and was struck by a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the bike was unregistered and remind the public that it is illegal to operate an e-bike under the age of 16, with seven traffic citations issued over the past month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crash happened at the intersection of Harwood Avenue and Earl Street just after 10 a.m. Thursday. CLARKS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-222623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222623","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=222623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}