Published February 10. 2026 02:45PM<\/p>\n
State police at the Bethlehem barracks reported the following crashes:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Mariia Ushakova, 31, of Brooklyn, New York, and a baby boy under age 1, of Parryville, were transported by personnel from the Northampton Regional EMS corps to the Lehigh Valley Hospital, Muhlenberg Campus, Bethlehem, following a two-vehicle crash at 12:48 p.m. Jan. 20 at the intersection of North Irving and North Dauphin streets in Hanover Township.<\/p>\n
Police said Ushakova had suspected minor injuries, while it is unknown if the infant, who was in a child safety seat, was hurt.<\/p>\n
They were passengers, police said, in a 2011 Volkswagen Tiguan driven by Nikita Dudenkov, 32, of Parryville, who was northbound on North Irving Street and beginning a turn to merge onto North Dauphin Street.<\/p>\n
Police said Dudenkov was lawfully yielding to northbound traffic on North Dauphin Street when the Tiguan was struck from behind by a 2010 Honda Pilot operated by Etienne Theagene, 48, of Whitehall. Both vehicles were able to be driven from the scene.<\/p>\n
Theagene was cited for following too closely, according to police.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Matthew R. Hicks, 35, of Whitehall, and Bret A. Ewing, 65, of Coplay, had suspected minor injuries after a two-vehicle crash at 4:29 p.m. Feb. 4 on Mauch Chunk Road, North Whitehall Township.<\/p>\n
Police said they refused transports to an area hospital by personnel from the Northern Valley Ambulance.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred, police said, when Hicks was driving a 2013 Honda Civic and Ewing was operating a 2016 Ford Escape.<\/p>\n
They said Hicks was making a left turn and Ewing was making a right turn. The Escape entered the roadway and was struck by the Civic, police said.<\/p>\n
Both drivers were cited after the crash, according to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published February 10. 2026 02:45PM State police at the Bethlehem barracks reported the following crashes: \u2022 Mariia Ushakova,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-110352","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\/110352","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=110352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}