{"id":75646,"date":"2026-01-01T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75646\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:36:09","slug":"boy-on-scooter-killed-when-struck-by-minivan-in-salisbury-township-police-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75646\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy on scooter killed when struck by minivan in Salisbury Township: police | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A juvenile riding a scooter was killed when a minivan struck him Wednesday evening in Salisbury Township, according to Pennsylvania State police.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened on Churchtown Road south of Mast Road just before 6 p.m. according to state police.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was heading south on Churchtown when a Dodge Caravan failed to pass with enough space and struck the boy from behind, throwing him from the scooter, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was taken to Reading Hospital, where he died of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The crash is being investigated and further information was not available Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A juvenile riding a scooter was killed when a minivan struck him Wednesday evening in Salisbury Township, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,296],"class_list":{"0":"post-75646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75646","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=75646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}