{"id":101804,"date":"2026-01-31T20:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101804\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:37:11","slug":"driver-hurt-after-ice-sheet-from-truck-shatters-car-windshield-on-route-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101804\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver hurt after ice sheet from truck shatters car windshield on Route 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman was injured Friday afternoon when a large sheet of ice slid off a tractor-trailer and struck her windshield along Route 22 in Bethlehem Township<\/a>, Pennsylvania State Police said.<\/p>\n

Trooper Nathan Branosky,<\/a> public information officer with state police Troop M, told lehighvalleylive.com the accident happened around 12:40 p.m. as the adult woman was heading westbound, near the Route 191 exit, in a Subaru Crosstrek.<\/p>\n

The tractor trailer was heading eastbound when the ice slid off, striking the Subaru and causing the windshield to shatter, Branosky said.<\/p>\n

The woman was injured and taken to St. Luke\u2019s University Hospital in Fountain Hill.<\/a> She is expected to survive her injuries, Branosky said.<\/p>\n

There were no passengers in the Subaru and no other injuries were reported in the accident.<\/p>\n

The tractor-trailer driver continued driving east without stopping and Pennsylvania State Police in Bethlehem are seeking witnesses to the incident.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information or who can identify the tractor-trailer driver is asked to call 610-861-2026.<\/p>\n

Traffic was backed up for about an hour following the accident. All lanes reopened by about 1:45 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n

Branosky stressed the importance of clearing snow and ice off vehicles within 24 hours after a weather event concludes. <\/a>Snow and ice are hazardous, especially on highways, when motorists are traveling at a high rate of speed, he said.<\/p>\n

In Pennsylvania, failing to remove snow or ice from a vehicle\u2019s roof, hood, and trunk within 24 hours of a storm can result in a $50 fine, under \u201cChristine\u2019s Law,\u201d<\/a> which was passed in July 2022. <\/p>\n

The law was named in honor of Christine Lambert, who died when a 10-inch chunk of ice dislodged from a trash truck and struck the vehicle she was driving on Christmas Day 2005 outside of Jim Thorpe.<\/p>\n

When snow or ice falls from a moving vehicle and strikes another vehicle or pedestrian, causing death or serious bodily injury, drivers can be fined at least $200 and up to $1,500 for each offense, under the state law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was injured Friday afternoon when a large sheet of ice slid off a tractor-trailer and struck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-101804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}