{"id":315977,"date":"2026-10-28T10:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315977\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:48:07","slug":"car-crashes-into-police-vehicle-blocking-traffic-for-unrelated-crash-on-roosevelt-boulevard-in-north-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315977\/","title":{"rendered":"Car crashes into police vehicle blocking traffic for unrelated crash on Roosevelt Boulevard in North Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; Police are investigating two separate crashes on Wednesday on the Roosevelt Boulevard in North Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 6 over crash on Roosevelt Boulevard<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The first happened in the northbound lanes of the Boulevard, near the 16th Street overpass, around 4:15 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police say the driver appears to have lost control before flipping over and trapping the driver inside.<\/p>\n<p>A woman was taken to the hospital after an early morning crash on Wednesday on the Roosevelt Boulevard in North Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Firefighters quickly arrived and were able to free the trapped driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She was taken to Temple Hospital in an unknown condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A second crash then occurred a short time later involving a Philadelphia police car that was blocking traffic to Route 1.<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 6 over crash involving police car on Roosevelt Boulevard<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials say a white car that was traveling northbound struck the police vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There has been no word on injuries regarding the secondary crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Traffic is stopped in the northbound lanes and is being forced off at Broad Street, heading to Hunting Park Avenue, as police investigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/traffic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest traffic in your area, click here.<\/a><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; Police are investigating two separate crashes on Wednesday on the Roosevelt Boulevard in North Philadelphia.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[128848,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-315977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-128848","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315977","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=315977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}