On March 15, 2026, at approximately 5:15 a.m., a two-vehicle crash occurred on the 5200 block of Torresdale Avenue, resulting in the death of an infant and serious injuries to an adult passenger.
Preliminary investigation determined that Unit #1, a privately operated ambulance, was traveling southbound on Torresdale Avenue at a high rate of speed and was not operating in emergency status, with no lights or sirens activated. The vehicle proceeded through a steady red traffic signal at the intersection with Harbison Avenue. At the same time, Unit #2, a 2010 Honda Accord traveling eastbound on Harbison Avenue with a steady green signal, entered the intersection and was struck on the driver’s side front door by Unit #1. The force of the crash ejected both the adult passenger, identified as the infant’s mother, and the infant through the front windshield of Unit #1. Both were found on the roadway.
Police were initially responding to a separate radio call for an unresponsive infant at a residence on the 6600 block of Ditman Street. Prior to police arrival, family members left that location in a private ambulance in an attempt to transport the infant to the hospital. Philadelphia Fire Department medics transported both the mother and the infant to Albert Einstein Medical Center, where the infant, identified as Marian Harris, was pronounced deceased at 6:17 a.m. The mother sustained severe head trauma and was listed in critical condition…