WEST PHILADELPHIA - A woman is in critical condition after police say she was found shot inside a car that had slammed into a van with a family of seven inside.Officers responded to the area of 51st Street and Chestnut Street just before 1 a.m.
for reports of a shooting and car crash. According to police, a 34-year-old woman was driving a silver Nissan on Chestnut Street with another man inside when her car was peppered with gunfire.
The woman was shot twice in the back and taken to Penn Presbyterian Hospital. The passenger fled the scene, police said.After the shooting, the woman slammed into a van carrying a mother, father and five children at the intersection of 51st Street.