{"id":79572,"date":"2026-01-06T20:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79572\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:32:12","slug":"erie-police-impound-vehicle-in-fatal-hit-and-run-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79572\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie police impound vehicle in fatal hit-and-run investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erie police said they\u2019ve impounded a vehicle they suspect of being involved in a fatal December hit-and-run in downtown Erie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said they recovered a Dodge Durango in Harborcreek Township, though no arrests have been made and no suspects have been named at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That fatal crash happened at West 8th and Liberty on December 9, around 6:50 pm, killing a 66-year-old man who was riding his bike.<\/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\">According to Erie police, a bicyclist was hit by a redish-orangish SUV heading eastbound on 8th Street. Investigators on the scene said the man riding the bicycle was pronounced dead at the hospital just before 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie police said they\u2019ve impounded a vehicle they suspect of being involved in a fatal December hit-and-run in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[40445,136,138,137,5585,2139,6967],"class_list":{"0":"post-79572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-dodge-durango","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-headlines","11":"tag-erie-news","12":"tag-erie-police","13":"tag-harborcreek-township","14":"tag-vehicle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79572","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=79572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}