{"id":361525,"date":"2025-12-21T08:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/361525\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T08:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:28:13","slug":"woman-killed-in-philadelphia-hit-and-run-on-whitaker-and-wyoming-avenue-police-searching-for-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/361525\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed in Philadelphia hit-and-run on Whitaker and Wyoming Avenue; police searching for driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; A woman was killed Friday night after being struck by a driver who fled the scene in the Feltonville section of Philadelphia, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crash happened around 9 p.m. at Whitaker and Wyoming avenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police say the victim, a 63-year-old woman, was crossing Whitaker Avenue at Wyoming Avenue within the crosswalk when the vehicle struck her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The driver stopped to look at the victim, but then fled the scene, continuing northbound on Whitaker Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Her identity has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The striking vehicle, a 2012 white Infiniti M37, was found unoccupied in the area of A and Louden streets. Police seized the vehicle for further investigation, but have not yet found the driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The investigation is ongoing with the Crash Investigation Division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Anyone with information is asked to call 215-686-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; A woman was killed Friday night after being struck by a driver who fled the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[178326,23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-361525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-178326","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}