{"id":266927,"date":"2026-08-17T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266927\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:56:09","slug":"pedestrian-struck-and-killed-by-tow-truck-overnight-in-philadelphia-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266927\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian struck and killed by tow truck overnight in Philadelphia: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-e2115db2=\"\"\/>     <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A pedestrian is dead after investigators say he was struck and killed by a tow truck overnight Sunday in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators say a pedestrian was crossing the intersection of 26th Street and Penrose Avenue around 9 p.m. when they were struck by a black tow truck.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The tow truck did not stop after the fatal crash, and continued driving westbound on Penrose Avenue, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The pedestrian was taken to a nearby hospital where they were pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police say the victim remains unidentified as of Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information provided by the Philadelphia Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A pedestrian is dead after investigators say he was struck and killed by a tow truck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[592,139,539,69,71,70,593],"class_list":["post-266927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266927","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=266927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}