{"id":102017,"date":"2026-02-01T03:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102017\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T03:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:40:21","slug":"driver-hospitalized-after-car-flips-knocks-out-power-to-hundreds-in-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102017\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver hospitalized after car flips, knocks out power to hundreds in Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighdaily.com\/author\/isabel-hope\/\" class=\"flex-shrink-0 relative z-10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/isabel-hope-headshot-300x300.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"  alt=\"Isabel Hope\" class=\"avatar avatar-300 wp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-300 alignnone photo rounded-full w-12 h-12 object-cover ring-2 ring-white dark:ring-gray-800\"\/>                                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                                    Updated Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:28 pm                                                <\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighdaily.com\/author\/isabel-hope\/\" class=\"flex-shrink-0 relative z-10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/isabel-hope-headshot-150x150.jpeg\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\"  alt=\"Isabel Hope\" class=\"avatar avatar-64 wp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-64 alignnone photo rounded-full w-8 h-8 object-cover ring-2 ring-white dark:ring-gray-800\"\/>                                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                        By <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighdaily.com\/author\/isabel-hope\/\" class=\"text-brand hover:text-brand-400 transition-colors font-medium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                            Isabel Hope                                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                                Updated Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:28 pm                                            <\/p>\n<p>                                    <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5924-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"w-full h-full object-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"illick's mill power outage car crash mobil bethlehem\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>                                <\/p>\n<p>                                        illick&#8217;s mill power outage                                    <\/p>\n<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 A driver was hospitalized after a car flipped and struck a utility pole Thursday morning, knocking out power for hundreds of residents near Illick\u2019s Mill and Schoenersville roads.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred around 10:30 a.m. next to the Mobil gas station, where witnesses reported that the driver attempted to speed through a yellow light but swerved to avoid a turning vehicle. The car hit a utility pole, which caught fire and was uprooted from the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews extracted the driver, who appeared conscious but injured, and transported him to Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Cedar Crest. A hospital medical professional happened to be at the scene and assisted, which witnesses described as unusual.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5943-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5519\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Anthony Negron was behind the driver and saw the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe came to the light, it was yellow, he went and gunned it,\u201d Negron said. \u201cThe person who was making the left made the left. He tried to avoid it and he hit the pole. He is alive. He was talking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other witnesses reported seeing a transformer explode after the impact.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5935-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5523\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>PPL Electric Utilities could not immediately be reached for comment. According to the company\u2019s outage map, more than 460 customers in the area lost power. Restoration is estimated by 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold text-white mb-3 leading-tight\">\n                This is the part where we ask.\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base text-gray-300 mb-6\">\n                No billionaire owner. No paywall. 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She graduated with a degree in journalism from The University of Alabama in 2022, where she served as News Editor of the student newspaper. Isabel has lived in the Lehigh Valley for three years and is passionate about reporting for the communities she now calls home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:28 pm By Isabel Hope Updated Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:28 pm illick&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-102017","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\/102017","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=102017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}