{"id":63674,"date":"2025-12-17T21:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/63674\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:24:07","slug":"van-hits-parked-cars-on-pittston-avenue-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/63674\/","title":{"rendered":"Van hits parked cars on Pittston Avenue in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tow truck arrives at 2116 Pittston Ave. in Scranton on Wednesday afternoon to remove a van that hit two parked vehicles on the hilly street. Scranton police Sgt. John Megivern said the driver apparently suffered a medical episode; there was no word on the driver\u2019s condition. The crash occurred shortly after 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Scranton Police Sgt. John Megivern said a driver has a medical episode and hit two parked cars at 2116 Pittston Ave. in Scranton on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (REBECCA PARTIKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"3008\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-CRASH-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1500984\" \/>Scranton Police Sgt. John Megivern said a driver has a medical episode and hit two parked cars at 2116 Pittston Ave. in Scranton on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (REBECCA PARTIKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tow truck arrives at 2116 Pittston Ave. in Scranton on Wednesday afternoon to remove a van that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,28,178,180,179,729],"class_list":{"0":"post-63674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-lackawanna-county","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-scranton","12":"tag-scranton-headlines","13":"tag-scranton-news","14":"tag-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63674","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=63674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}