Two crashes at the exact same spot on Route 22 within hours left three people injured early Wednesday in Whitehall Township, state police said.
Trooper Nathan Branosky, public information officer with Pennsylvania State Police’s Troop M, told lehighvalleylive.com the initial accident happened just after 2:15 a.m. in the westbound lanes at MacArthur Road.
That accident involved a sedan and a FedEx tractor trailer. The rig hit the center median after it was struck by the sedan driver, Branosky said.
The sedan driver was arrested and charged with drunken driving in the collision, he said.
A second crash followed in the westbound lane shortly before 6:30 a.m. also at MacArthur Road.
That crash involved four vehicles: a 2020 Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross being driven by a 29-year-old Slatington man; a 2017 Honda HRV being driven by a 35-year-old Allentown woman; a 2016 Chevrolet Sonic being driven by a 40-year-old woman; and a 2024 Volvo being driven by a 35-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y. man.
There were injuries in both crashes with a total of three people taken to area hospitals for treatment, Branosky said. Conditions were not immediately available Wednesday afternoon.
The crashes remain under investigation by Pennsylvania State Police in Bethlehem.