{"id":768854,"date":"2026-07-17T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/768854\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:34:08","slug":"penn-medicine-employee-shuttle-in-south-philadelphia-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/768854\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn Medicine employee shuttle in South Philadelphia accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">A Penn Medicine employee shuttle was struck by a car and knocked on its side early Friday morning in <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/south-philly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Philadelphia<\/a>, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">One passenger was initially in critical condition, but has since been upgraded to stable, Philadelphia police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The van was transporting 11 employees, plus the driver, the <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/university-of-pennsylvania\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of Pennsylvania<\/a> Health System said. All were taken to hospitals for evaluation and treatment, Penn said, but other details on the passengers\u2019 conditions was not provided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The white Ford van was traveling east on Reed Street when a red Honda Civic Sport traveling south on South Christopher Columbus Boulevard struck the front driver\u2019s side. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The impact caused the van to spin and tip onto the driver\u2019s side, before stopping near train tracks in the road\u2019s median. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The incident remains under investigation, police said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min A Penn Medicine employee shuttle was struck by a car and knocked on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253,328316],"class_list":["post-768854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-penn-medicine-employee-shuttle-accident-south-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768854","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=768854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}