{"id":277774,"date":"2026-09-03T01:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277774\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T01:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:50:07","slug":"one-man-dead-after-pedestrian-vs-vehicle-crash-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277774\/","title":{"rendered":"One man dead after pedestrian vs. vehicle crash in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO.  \u2014 One man is dead after a being hit by a car Tuesday in Scranton. <\/p>\n<p>Scranton police responded to the crash on State Route 0307 at Florida Avenue near the &#8220;lookout.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the pedestrian as Dion Leepier, who was taken to Geisinger-Community Medical Center&#8217;s Trauma unit where he later died. <\/p>\n<p>The driver identified as 19-year-old Gracie Rinaldi was taken into custody on suspicion of driving under the influence. <\/p>\n<p>Charges are pending after the completion of the investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. \u2014 One man is dead after a being hit by a car Tuesday in Scranton.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-277774","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\/277774","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=277774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}