{"id":65476,"date":"2025-12-19T18:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65476\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:41:09","slug":"man-struck-killed-by-hit-and-run-driver-in-philadelphias-cobbs-creek-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65476\/","title":{"rendered":"Man struck, killed by hit-and-run-driver in Philadelphia&#8217;s Cobbs Creek neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Philadelphia police say a man was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in the city&#8217;s Cobbs Creek neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It happened just after midnight on Friday on the 100 block of South Cobbs Creek Parkway, near Walnut Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators say a 50-year-old man who appeared to be under the influence was seated in the middle of the roadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim was then struck by a white sedan with a sunroof as he was attempting to stand up.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was transported to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim&#8217;s identity has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators are asking anyone with information to call police at 215-685-3181 or submit an anonymous tip at 215-686-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police say a man was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in the city&#8217;s Cobbs Creek&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11355,15573,69,71,70,2245],"class_list":["post-65476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-cobbs-creek","tag-penn-presbyterian-medical-center","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65476","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=65476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}