{"id":118479,"date":"2026-02-19T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118479\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:39:00","slug":"driver-taken-to-hospital-after-car-plunges-into-a-river-in-poconos-schuylkill-county-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118479\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver taken to hospital after car plunges into a river in Poconos | Schuylkill County Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"skook car river.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69976e7ea4207.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Larry Neff | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>TAMAQUA, Pa. &#8211; Emergency crews rushed to the Little Schuylkill River Thursday afternoon, finding a car overturned in the water.<\/p>\n<p>According to 911 dispatchers, a woman drove her car into the river at around 12:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed it was a single\u2011vehicle incident, and the woman was transported to the hospital by EMS. The severity of her injuries is not yet known.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"skook river car wide.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69976ffb4e31e.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Larry Neff | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>As of 1:30 p.m., the car had not been removed from the river.<\/p>\n<p>Police and fire crews remained on scene as of 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Stick with 69 News for updates as this story develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Larry Neff | for WFMZ-TV TAMAQUA, Pa. &#8211; Emergency crews rushed to the Little Schuylkill River Thursday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2440,153,155,154,1602,26030,56195,7778,6111,206,55244,25983,231],"class_list":{"0":"post-118479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-ambulance","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-car-accident","13":"tag-emergency-response","14":"tag-female-driver","15":"tag-fire-department","16":"tag-hospital","17":"tag-police","18":"tag-rescue-operation","19":"tag-river","20":"tag-schuylkill-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118479","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=118479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}