A man died driving on a Northwest Philadelphia road. The neighborhood has pled for safety improvements for decades.

Cresheim Valley Drive is pictured on Dec. 1, 2025, with a downed guardrail where a 65-year-old man crashed and later died Sunday evening. Neighbors say Cresheim Valley Road and nearby Lincoln Drive are constant sources of crashes, sometimes fatal. Read more Jessica Griffin / Staff Photographer

by Henry Savage Published Dec. 2, 2025, 2:53 p.m. ET

A 65-year-old man died Sunday after he lost control of his vehicle on Cresheim Valley Drive in Chestnut Hill , striking a downed guardrail and flipping the car upside down into a creek. Just weeks before, another driver veered off the same road but survived.

Compounding this latest traffic death is the fact that the guardrail meant to prevent cars from careening off the road was broken and nearly flattened from previous crashes, lea