crash Saturday afternoon<\/a> involving electric bicycles in Scranton.<\/p>\nInvestigators say two people riding e-bikes were traveling west on Cherry Street when they entered Pittston Avenue and collided with a vehicle that was traveling northbound.<\/p>\n
Witnesses told police that both riders went through the posted stop sign before the crash. They were taken to the hospital; there is no word yet on their conditions.<\/p>\n
Authorities say charges may be filed as the investigation into the crash continues.<\/p>\n
The department is also reminding the public of the risks associated with electric bikes, saying they’ve seen an increase in issues throughout the city and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n
Riders are required to obey traffic laws, including stopping at stop signs and traffic signals, yielding the right-of-way when required, and operating e-bikes safely and responsibly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crash at the intersection of Cherry Street and Pittston Avenue left two people hospitalized on Saturday. SCRANTON,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-232336","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\/232336","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=232336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}