{"id":302274,"date":"2026-10-08T11:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302274\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:02:08","slug":"1-dead-after-car-crashes-into-u-haul-building-in-kensington-sparking-large-fire-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302274\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead after car crashes into U-Haul building in Kensington, sparking large fire, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person is dead after a car crashed into a U-Haul building, sparking a large fire in Philadelphia&#8217;s Kensington neighborhood Thursday morning, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the crash happened just after 5:15 a.m. at a U-Haul storage facility on 339 E Lehigh Ave, which sits directly next to the El. When firefighters arrived, they found a vehicle in the side of the building and a fire on the first floor. No employees were in the building at the time of the crash, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The age and gender of the driver is unknown, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 3 is overhead, where a vehicle could be seen lodged in the side of the building. The building sustained significant fire damage.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chopper-lehigh-ave-fire-100826-frame-37145.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"1 deaad after car crashes into U-Haul building in Kensington, sparking large fire \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>The fire was placed under control around 5:45 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of Lehigh Ave and Front Street are closed to traffic. The service on the El was not impacted by the fire, SEPTA said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said L&amp;I is on scene inspecting the integrity of the building.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person is dead after a car crashed into a U-Haul building, sparking a large fire in Philadelphia&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1540,8921,124350,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-302274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-car-crash","tag-kensington","tag-kensington-fire","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302274","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=302274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}