At least four people were injured overnight, officials said, when the driver of a van plowed into two police cruisers and another vehicle along Girard Avenue in Philly’s Brewerytown section early Monday.<\/p>\n
According to police, the incident happened at about 2:23 a.m. when the driver of a black Mercedes van driving along Girard Avenue struck a vehicle at the intersection at 28th Street.<\/p>\n
In a morning update, officials said, the incident happened when a 56-year-old man, who was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, was driving at a high rate of speed eastbound on Girard Avenue when officers investigating a burglary-in-progress on the block heard his vehicle approaching.<\/p>\n
The driver then proceeded to strike a vehicle before his van hit a marked police cruiser and continued, slamming into an unmarked police vehicle, officials said.<\/p>\n
After this impact, the van went airborne and landed on the unmarked police vehicle, according to police. <\/p>\n
Following the crash, officials said, the driver exited the vehicle and was taken into custody by police at the scene. <\/p>\n
Police recovered a firearm at the scene and no other injuries were reported. <\/p>\n
An investigation into this incident, officials said, remains ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least four people were injured overnight, officials said, when the driver of a van plowed into two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57810,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-275798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-brewerytown","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275798","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=275798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}