The 69th Street Transportation Center in Upper Darby, Pa. is photographed on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021. Read more HEATHER KHALIFA / Staff Photographer

by Abraham Gutman Published Aug. 7, 2025, 3:14 p.m. ET

Philadelphia has agreed to pay $2.9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a child and woman struck by a dirt bike across the city line in Upper Darby Township during what was an unauthorized high-speed police chase in 2017.

Philadelphia Police Officer Dwayne Merrell pursued a dirt-bike rider, Caliph Douglass , for several miles from Southwest Philadelphia, through Cobbs Creek Park, and into Upper Darby on April 15.

Douglass struck Lillie Stubbs and her six-year-old great-niece on a crosswalk near the 69th Street Transportation Center. The child was transported to the Chil

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