{"id":53318,"date":"2025-12-05T21:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/53318\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:14:06","slug":"west-chester-pike-closed-after-2-vehicle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/53318\/","title":{"rendered":"West Chester Pike closed after 2-vehicle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An SUV and a dump truck collided Friday afternoon in the 8600 block of West Chester Pike in Upper Darby Township.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred shortly before 2 p.m. and brought down live wires onto the dump truck, according to fire radio traffic. Crews waited for PECO\u2019s arrival before attempting to get the truck driver out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A look at the West Chester Pike wreckage from the other side. (PETE BANNAN - DAILY TIMES) \" width=\"3240\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG-5642-e1764967277622.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1711791\" \/>A look at the West Chester Pike wreckage from the other side. (PETE BANNAN \u2013 DAILY TIMES)<\/p>\n<p>PECO did arrive about 15 minutes later and shut off the power. One person was taken to Lankenau Medical Center from the incident. Traffic remained slowed on the Pike at 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Official details of the incident were not yet available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An SUV and a dump truck collided Friday afternoon in the 8600 block of West Chester Pike in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[212,182,139,28,210,147,149,148,150],"class_list":{"0":"post-53318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upper-darby","8":"tag-delaware-county","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-top-stories-dtd","13":"tag-upper-darby","14":"tag-upper-darby-headlines","15":"tag-upper-darby-news","16":"tag-upper-darby-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53318","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=53318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}