{"id":317997,"date":"2026-10-31T01:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T01:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317997\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T01:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T01:22:09","slug":"philly-officer-hit-by-car-in-germantown-on-friday-afternoon-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317997\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly officer hit by car in Germantown on Friday afternoon \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Philadelphia police officer was hit by a car trying to flee a traffic stop on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Video shared with NBC10 shows a police car roll up behind a car with sirens blaring. The car then pushes past an SUV and crashes into the back of another car before backing out.<\/p>\n<p>Officers then rush out of their car and try to approach the car, but the car backs up and ultimately hits an officer head-on, causing them to go flying onto the sidewalk. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/officer-hit.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tNBC10NBC10<\/p>\n<p>Other officers then force the car door open and take the suspect into custody. <\/p>\n<p>The identity of the suspect and why they were being pursued is not yet known. <\/p>\n<p>The officer was listed in stable condition. <\/p>\n<p>SkyForce10 was over the scene to find several cars were spotted mangled together along the roadway outside at the 5600 block of Germantown Avenue at around 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/germantown-avenue-crash.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tSkyForce10SkyForce10<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/officer-injured-gtown.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tNBC10NBC10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Philadelphia police officer was hit by a car trying to flee a traffic stop on Friday. Video&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14780,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-317997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-germantown","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317997","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=317997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}