Police are hoping to locate a driver and vehicle that were believed to be involved in a hit-and-run crash that left a pedestrian seriously injured early Sunday.<\/p>\n
According to police, the incident happened at about 12:35 a.m. on Sunday when a vehicle, described as a possible black Jeep Wrangler, struck a pedestrian who was crossing the intersection at Trenton Street and Lehigh Avenue in Philly’s Kensington section.<\/p>\n
The vehicle, officials said, was headed westbound on Lehigh Avenue when the incident happened and, after the crash, the driver did not render aid to the victim.<\/p>\n
Instead, officials said, the driver fled the scene, headed west on Lehigh Avenue.<\/p>\n
The victim in this incident — who police did not provide further identifying information on — suffered a fractured hip, leg injuries, lacerations and a head injury, officials said. <\/p>\n
Police said the was taken to a nearby hospital where they have undergone surgery. <\/p>\n
Police are asking anyone who may have information about this incident to contact the Philadelphia Police Department’s Crash Investigation Division at 215-685-3180.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are hoping to locate a driver and vehicle that were believed to be involved in a hit-and-run…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":208181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,49316,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-208180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-kensington","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115164261008757743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}