{"id":290799,"date":"2026-09-21T12:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290799\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T12:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:56:07","slug":"two-hospitalized-after-tree-falls-on-three-cars-in-lower-merion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290799\/","title":{"rendered":"Two hospitalized after tree falls on three cars in Lower Merion"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOWER MERION \u2014 Two people were taken to a hospital after a tree fell on three vehicles at Belmont and Old Belmont avenues in Lower Merion shortly before 1 p.m. on Sept. 18.<\/p>\n

According to police, the tree struck three vehicles stopped in traffic. The cars struck were a white Nissan Sentra, a white Ford Mustang, and a black Toyota Highlander.<\/p>\n

The driver of the Mustang, a 43-year-old man, suffered minor injuries and was transported to Lankenau Medical Center by Narberth Ambulance. A front-seat passenger, a 28-year-old man, suffered serious injuries and was also transported to Lankenau, where he remains in critical but stable condition, police said.<\/p>\n

The occupants of the Nissan and Highlander suffered minor injuries and were treated at the scene.<\/p>\n

Belmont Avenue was closed between Rock Hill Road and Jefferson Street for about three hours during the initial investigation and closed later for repairs to electrical equipment damaged in the incident.<\/p>\n

The crash remains under investigation by the township police\u2019s Traffic Safety Unit.<\/p>\n

On July 3, three people were injured and taken to Lankenau Medical Center after a tree fell onto a roadway in Rosemont<\/a>, striking a car. Two occupants of that vehicle were listed in critical condition the day after the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER MERION \u2014 Two people were taken to a hospital after a tree fell on three vehicles at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[182,183,185,184,186,200,139,28,210],"class_list":["post-290799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-local-news","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-montgomery-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-dtd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290799","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=290799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}