{"id":242367,"date":"2026-07-13T16:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242367\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:56:18","slug":"erie-pd-announces-arrest-connection-with-february-hit-and-run-that-killed-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242367\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie PD announces arrest connection with February hit-and-run that killed child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ERIE, Colo. \u2014 A 32-year-old has been arrested in connection with a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denver7.com\/news\/front-range\/erie\/two-year-old-dies-in-hit-and-run-crash-in-erie-sunday-afternoon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fatal hit-and-run crash that killed a 2-year-old in February<\/a>, the Erie Police Department announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Seth Kirkegaard, 32, of Erie was arrested on Friday on charges of leaving the scene of a fatal crash, careless driving resulting in serious bodily injury or death, and driving with no insurance. <\/p>\n<p>The arrest came after an &#8220;extensive and thorough&#8221; investigation, the police department said. <\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 4:40 p.m. on Feb. 15, 2026 in a neighborhood area east of Mountain View Boulevard and north of Village Vista Drive in Erie, police said. Kirkegaard, who allegedly fled the scene, was initially identified as a person of interest, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Kirkegaard is expected to appear in Weld County court on July 15.<\/p>\n<p>top-stories.mp4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE, Colo. \u2014 A 32-year-old has been arrested in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,103873,103874,103875,103876,103877,103878,103879,54855,137],"class_list":["post-242367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-hit-and-run-fatal","tag-erie-hit-and-run-fatal-2-year-old","tag-erie-hit-and-run-fatal-baby","tag-erie-hit-and-run-fatal-child","tag-erie-hit-and-run-fatal-crash","tag-erie-hit-and-run-fatal-toddler","tag-erie-hit-and-run-fatal-update","tag-erie-hit-and-run","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242367","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=242367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}