The crash happened on March 30th, 2025, when a 24-year-old driver went the wrong way on the Northeast Extension.<\/a><\/p>\nThe crash killing 50-year-old John Sweeney from Bristol Township and injuring his son.<\/p>\n
A video taken by another driver of the car going the wrong direction was shocking and raised many questions including how and why.<\/p>\n
At the time, police were asking anyone with footage of the wreck or of the woman driving before the accident happened to send it their way.<\/p>\n
They could not comment on questions about speed or anything else that may have been a factor, as it is part of the investigation.<\/p>\n
A year later, many of those same questions remain.<\/p>\n
What we did learn, is that the investigation is still taking place.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson says the Pennsylvania State Police continues to work in conjunction with the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office in this investigation.<\/p>\n
I did confirm that the name of the wrong way driver was never released following the crash.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson for state police says any further comment will come from the DA’s office.<\/p>\n
We reached out to the Lehigh County District Attorney’s office that said they are also still investigating.<\/p>\n
69 News will provide updates as we learn them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON TWP., Pa. – It’s been one year since a wrong-way driver on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Lehigh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,197,624,21478,1021,69407,433,69406,4696,487,52036],"class_list":{"0":"post-152709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-bucks-county","12":"tag-district-attorney","13":"tag-fatal-accident","14":"tag-investigation","15":"tag-john-sweeney","16":"tag-lehigh-county","17":"tag-motorcyclists","18":"tag-pennsylvania-turnpike","19":"tag-state-police","20":"tag-wrong-way-crash"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152709","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=152709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}