{"id":281146,"date":"2026-09-08T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/281146\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T00:46:08","slug":"2-women-dead-in-fiery-crash-in-downingtown-pennsylvania-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/281146\/","title":{"rendered":"2 women dead in fiery crash in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two women died in a fiery crash in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Sunday afternoon, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened on the unit block of Lancaster Avenue near the Downingtown Log House around 12:06 p.m., according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said two women were in a Silver Jeep Grand Cherokee heading east on East Lancaster Avenue, went off the road and crashed into a concrete retention wall. The vehicle caught on fire just after impact, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver died at the scene of the crash. The other woman, who was in the front passenger seat, was taken to a local hospital, where she died because of her injuries. The identities of the women were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Part of East Lancaster Avenue was closed for hours on Sunday as police investigated the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the crash is asked to contact the Downingtown Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two women died in a fiery crash in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Sunday afternoon, police said. The crash happened on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1540,1557,28,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-281146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-car-crash","tag-chester-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281146","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=281146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}