{"id":144539,"date":"2026-03-21T08:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144539\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:47:08","slug":"driver-flees-traffic-stop-in-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144539\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver flees traffic stop in Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, PA \u2014 Police are seeking help identifying a driver who fled a traffic stop on March 18, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at approximately 7:38 a.m. at the intersection of Old Philadelphia Pike and Route 378.<\/p>\n<p>An officer conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle when the male driver quickly exited and began questioning the officer before being approached.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified man then re-entered the vehicle, placed it in reverse and fled at a high rate of speed south on Old Philadelphia Pike.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was last seen turning right onto Seidersville Road toward Salisbury Township.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the registration plate on the vehicle does not belong to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, PA \u2014 Police are seeking help identifying a driver who fled a traffic stop on March 18,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-144539","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\/144539","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=144539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}