{"id":89282,"date":"2026-01-17T08:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89282\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T08:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:04:16","slug":"driver-killed-in-head-on-crash-overnight-in-philadelphia-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89282\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed in head-on crash overnight in Philadelphia: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/9d1jf562txlcj6cy.jpg\" alt=\"Multi-vehicle crash reported on Lincoln Drive \" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; One person is dead after investigators say he was ejected during a head-on crash involving three cars overnight Thursday in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Eric Sullivan, 65, was driving on Lincoln Drive around 9 p.m. when he crossed into oncoming traffic and hit a Mercedes carrying three people, including an 8-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Sullivan&#8217;s 1997 Toyota 4Runner continued into another car before coming to a stop, investigators say. He was ejected from the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Three people in the Mercedes were taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center and placed in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The condition of the occupants in the third vehicle is not known.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Investigators have not said what may have caused Sullivan to cross into oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; One person is dead after investigators say he was ejected during a head-on crash involving three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[592,139,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-89282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89282","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=89282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}