{"id":228217,"date":"2026-06-25T22:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228217\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T22:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:04:08","slug":"construction-worker-critical-after-southwest-philly-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228217\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction worker critical after Southwest Philly hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A construction worker is in critical condition after a hit-and-run in Southwest Philadelphia early Thursday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Police said a 24-year-old construction worker was placing traffic cones down in the bike lane around 7 a.m. along the 5800 block of Lindbergh Boulevard when a car veered into the lane to go around stopped traffic and struck the worker.<\/p>\n<p>The driver kept going, and the worker was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities describe the striking vehicle as a light-colored Nissan sedan, possibly silver or white.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the vehicle or the driver&#8217;s identity is urged to contact police at 215-686-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A construction worker is in critical condition after a hit-and-run in Southwest Philadelphia early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[51651,12056,69,71,70,2653],"class_list":["post-228217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-construction-worker","tag-hit-and-run","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-southwest-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228217","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=228217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}