{"id":71293,"date":"2025-12-27T00:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71293\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T00:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:35:19","slug":"philadelphia-police-searching-for-hit-and-run-suspect-who-killed-dj-on-one-of-citys-most-dangerous-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71293\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police searching for hit-and-run suspect who killed DJ on one of city’s most dangerous roads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are still looking for the driver of an SUV that\u00a0hit and killed a cyclist<\/a> last weekend in West Philadelphia on one of the most unsafe streets in the city. \u00a0<\/p>\n

People who live and work in the Overbrook area say the stretch of Lancaster Avenue between 50th and 60th streets can be a death trap. David Talone is a member of Philly Bike Action and often rides around West Philly.<\/p>\n

“The speeds on Lancaster Avenue are pretty incredible,” said Talone, who got rid of his car a few years ago and now uses his bike to get around Philly. Talone said he avoids that stretch of Lancaster Avenue.<\/p>\n

“What happens is the drivers see this long, wide stretch of road and they know they can fly along that section, and they do,” he said.<\/p>\n

A\u00a02025 report<\/a> issued by the Philadelphia Parking Authority showed the red-light camera at 52nd and Lancaster caught more than 24,000 vehicles running through the red light in a year’s time \u2014 the second most of any intersection in the entire city. The road is also on what the city calls its “high injury network<\/a>,” where 80% of traffic deaths and serious injuries occur in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Police are still looking for the driver of an SUV who hit and killed June Rodriguez<\/a> early Saturday morning at 56th and Lancaster. Rodriguez, a beloved DJ at Bob and Barbara’s Lounge, was riding his bike home after finishing his shift at work.<\/p>\n

“You have to wonder what kind of person could witness an accident that they were a part of and drive away,” said Katrina Duva, Rodriguez’s former manager.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In September, 77-year-old Dorothea Cathell was killed at 54th and Lancaster in a hit-and-run. At the time, her son told CBS News Philadelphia she was walking to the grocery store. Police eventually\u00a0arrested and charged a man<\/a> in that case.<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Streets Department sent CBS Philadelphia a statement saying, “We are aware of the deadly crash on Lancaster Avenue that resulted in the death of an individual on a bicycle. It is devastating. As part of that commitment to public safety, we are conducting a thorough assessment of the crash site.”<\/p>\n

According to police data, so far this year, there have been 598 hit-and-run crashes in Philadelphia, 22 of which were fatal, down slightly from last year. That includes vehicle-only crashes as well as those that involved pedestrians and cyclists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are still looking for the driver of an SUV that\u00a0hit and killed a cyclist last weekend in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12056,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-71293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-hit-and-run","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71293","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=71293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}