State police at the Bethlehem barracks reported the following crashes:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Carter M. Birnbaum, 19, of Lehighton, and a 17-year-old girl from Whitehall had suspected minor injuries after a two-vehicle crash at 8:20 p.m. March 14 at the intersection of Weaversville Road with Airport Road, Hanover Township.<\/p>\n
Police said the girl was transported by personnel from the Northampton Regional EMS corps to the Lehigh Valley Hospital, Muhlenberg Campus, Bethlehem, while Birnbaum was not transported from the scene.<\/p>\n
They said the crash occurred when Birnbaum, driving a 2011 Volkswagen Tiguan west on Weaversville Road, failed to stop for a steady red signal at the intersection with Airport Road and struck the front of a 2011 Mini Cooper driven by the girl. Upon impact, the Tiguan veered south, exited the roadway and lodged between a utility pole and wires. The Mini came to rest blocking the intersection.<\/p>\n
Birnbaum was cited after the crash, according to police.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Two vehicles had major damage and were towed from the scene of a crash at 7:05 a.m. March 9 on Route 873 in Washington Township.<\/p>\n
Police said the crash occurred when a 2022 Chevrolet Equinox operated by Reynold C. Lorah, 83, of Slatington, traveling south hit the back of a 2010 Ford Escape driven by Christie L. Schirmacher, 37, of Slatington.<\/p>\n
Police said Lorah had possible injuries and was transported by personnel from the Northern Valley ambulance to the Lehigh Valley Hospital, Cedar Crest Campus, Salisbury Township.<\/p>\n
They said Schirmacher and a passenger in her car, an 8-year old girl from Slatington, also had possible injuries but refused medical services transports from the scene. Two other passengers, two girls, ages 10 and 16, were uninjured.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Police said a vehicle fled the scene after sideswiping a 1999 Plymouth at 1:41 p.m. March 10 on Mountain Road, Washington Township.<\/p>\n
They said the vehicle was westbound when it traveled into the eastbound lane and struck the Plymouth, which was operated by Cindy J. DeLong, 74, of Slatington.<\/p>\n
Police said DeLong had suspected minor injuries and was transported by personnel from the Northern Valley ambulance to the St. Luke\u2019s Hospital, Carbon Campus, Franklin Township.<\/p>\n
The Plymouth was towed from the scene.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Moises Vargas, 47, of Slatington, was injured after a one-vehicle crash at 8:35 p.m. March 3 on Coffeetown Road, North Whitehall Township.<\/p>\n
Police said he was transported by personnel from the Northern Valley ambulance to the Lehigh Valley Hospital, Cedar Crest Campus, Salisbury Township.<\/p>\n
Police said he was driving a 2019 Nissan Frontier northbound when it failed to maintain its lane of travel, veered off the road and traveled through a grassy area. They said Vargas attempted to merge back into his lane but the pickup slid on grass and struck a tree.<\/p>\n
Police said Vargas was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Austin D. Kern, 23, of Lehighton, was uninjured after a one-vehicle crash at 12:38 a.m. Feb. 25 on Howertown Road, Allen Township.<\/p>\n
Police said he was driving a 2010 Dodge Caliber northbound when it failed to maintain its lane of travel, went off the right side of the road and hit a tree.<\/p>\n
Police said Kern fled the crash scene without notifying police of the crash.<\/p>\n
The Caliber was towed from the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State police at the Bethlehem barracks reported the following crashes: \u2022 Carter M. Birnbaum, 19, of Lehighton, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-140936","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\/140936","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=140936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}