{"id":460485,"date":"2025-12-20T17:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460485\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:50:18","slug":"54-year-old-bicyclist-killed-in-early-morning-crash-in-west-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460485\/","title":{"rendered":"54-year-old bicyclist killed in early-morning crash in West Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/vlcsnap-2023-04-10-05h56m40s72.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><strong>PHILADELPHIA<\/strong> &#8211; A bicyclist was killed early Saturday morning after being struck by a vehicle in West Philadelphia, according to police.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police say the crash happened around 3:45 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, at the intersection of North 56th Street and Lancaster Avenue in the city\u2019s 19th Police District.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to investigators, a red SUV, possibly a Jeep Cherokee, and a bicycle were both traveling westbound on Lancaster Avenue, with the SUV following a short distance behind the bicyclist.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">As the bicyclist began making a left turn southbound onto North 56th Street, police say the SUV struck the bicycle. After the impact, the SUV appeared to swerve and then continued westbound on Lancaster Avenue.<\/p>\n<p> The investigation <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Philadelphia Fire Department medics responded to the scene and transported the bicyclist \u2014 a 54-year-old man \u2014 to Lankenau Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:47 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Crash Investigation Division is handling the investigation. Police have not released information about the driver or whether charges are expected.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Authorities say the investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information about the crash is urged to contact Philadelphia police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> This article is based on information provided by the Philadelphia Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A bicyclist was killed early Saturday morning after being struck by a vehicle in West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":460486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,50,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-460485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","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\/115753165447201860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460485","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=460485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}