{"id":41294,"date":"2025-11-22T02:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/41294\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T02:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:51:06","slug":"84-year-old-man-struck-and-killed-in-bensalem-township-police-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/41294\/","title":{"rendered":"84-year-old man struck and killed in Bensalem Township: Police \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 84-year-old man was struck and killed by a Porsche in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/tag\/bensalem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bensalem<\/a> Township in Bucks County on Friday night, police said. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, the crash happened at around 6:20 p.m. on Brownsville Road near the intersection of Oak Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>The blue Porsche was traveling northbound on Brownsville Road when another car making a left from Oak Avenue onto Brownsville Road and obstructed the view of the driver of the Porsche, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The Porsche driver then struck 84-year-old Martin Thompson, of Trevose, as he crossed Brownsville Road mid-block, police said. <\/p>\n<p>When police arrived, they said they found Thompson with significant head injuries and no vital signs, leading to him being pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>SkyForce10 was over the scene to find a Porsche with severe damage to its windshield and police investigating the area. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/porsche.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>At this time, there is no suspicion that alcohol, drugs or speeding played a role in the crash and the driver of the Porsche stayed at the scene, police said. <\/p>\n<p>However, the investigation is ongoing and anyone with information or photos or videos of the incident is urged to call investigators at (215) 633-3719.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 84-year-old man was struck and killed by a Porsche in Bensalem Township in Bucks County on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,197],"class_list":["post-41294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-bucks-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41294","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=41294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}