{"id":280898,"date":"2026-09-07T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280898\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:08:10","slug":"2-women-killed-in-fiery-crash-in-downingtown-pennsylvania-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280898\/","title":{"rendered":"2 women killed in fiery crash in Downingtown, Pennsylvania \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two women were killed in a fiery crash in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred on Sunday, Sept. 6, around noon on East Lancaster Avenue near the Downingtown Log House. Police said a woman was driving a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee eastbound on East Lancaster Avenue when she left the roadway along the westbound side and crashed into a concrete retention wall, causing the vehicle to catch fire.<\/p>\n<p>The driver died from her injuries at the scene. Responding Downingtown police officers and a bystander pulled a passenger from the front seat. Medics provided medical care and the passenger was taken to a local hospital where she later died from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not yet revealed the names of the two victims.<\/p>\n<p>East Lancaster Avenue was closed until 3 p.m. Sunday amid the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who witnessed the crash or has details on the incident should call Downingtown Police at 610-269-0263 or email them at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/2-women-killed-in-fiery-crash-in-downingtown-pennsylvania\/4459158\/mailto:traffic@downingtown.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">traffic@downingtown.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two women were killed in a fiery crash in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, over the weekend. The crash occurred on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-280898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280898","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=280898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}