{"id":258302,"date":"2025-09-27T08:42:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T08:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/258302\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T08:42:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T08:42:36","slug":"77-year-old-woman-killed-after-hit-and-run-in-west-philadelphia-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/258302\/","title":{"rendered":"77-year-old woman killed after hit-and-run in West Philadelphia, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gettyimages-1399782864-1.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 77-year-old woman was struck and killed by a car in West Philadelphia on Friday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at 54th Street and Lancaster Avenue in the Overbrook neighborhood before 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigation showed a black Infiniti with a Delaware paper tag was traveling eastbound on Lancaster Avenue when it struck the 77-year-old woman, police said.<\/p>\n<p>They said the driver reversed down Lancaster Avenue going south, where they dropped off a woman passenger at a pizza shop near 56th Street and Girard Avenue in the Carroll Park neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>The 77-year-old woman was taken to Lankenau Hospital, and she was later pronounced dead at 5:52 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Police described the Infiniti car as having front-end damage.<\/p>\n<p>Police urge anyone who has information about the fatal hit-and-run to call the Crash Investigation Division at 215-685-3180 or call 911.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/taleisha-newbill\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taleisha  Newbill<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Taleisha Newbill is a digital content producer at CBS Philadelphia. Taleisha has previously worked at NBC affiliate WOWT and FOX 42\/KPTM in Omaha, Nebraska. She covers breaking news, crime, entertainment and feel-good stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Philadelphia Live A 77-year-old woman was struck and killed by a car in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,5417,135747,1448,83280,31299,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,32611],"class_list":{"0":"post-258302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-hit-and-run","10":"tag-overbrook","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pedestrian-killed","13":"tag-pedestrian-struck","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-philadelphia","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-west-philadelphia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115275376069205920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258302","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=258302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}