{"id":66362,"date":"2025-12-20T21:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66362\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:38:07","slug":"man-killed-in-hit-and-run-while-riding-bicycle-in-philadelphias-overbrook-neighborhood-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66362\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in hit-and-run while riding bicycle in Philadelphia&#8217;s Overbrook neighborhood, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 54-year-old man riding a bicycle was killed early Saturday in a hit-and-run in Philadelphia&#8217;s Overbrook neighborhood, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said a red SUV fatally struck the bicyclist at the intersection of North 56th Street and Lancaster Avenue just before 3:45 a.m. The SUV was traveling a short distance behind the bicyclist on Lancaster Avenue when the cyclist began making a left turn onto N. 56th Street and was struck. Police believe the SUV is a Jeep Cherokee.<\/p>\n<p>After the collision, the SUV swerved and continued west on Lancaster Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The man was transported to Lankenau Hospital by Philadelphia Fire Department medics, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 4:45 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 54-year-old man riding a bicycle was killed early Saturday in a hit-and-run in Philadelphia&#8217;s Overbrook neighborhood, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12056,29779,69,71,70,877],"class_list":{"0":"post-66362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-hit-and-run","9":"tag-overbrook","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news","13":"tag-west-philadelphia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66362","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=66362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}