{"id":155377,"date":"2026-04-02T13:33:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155377\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:33:54","slug":"sinkhole-closes-northampton-county-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155377\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole closes Northampton County road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sinkhole has closed a major road in Northampton County.<\/p>\n<p>Lower Mount Bethel Sandt\u2019s Eddy Fire Co. said on social media Wednesday night that Martins Creek Belvidere Highway is closed between Route 611 and Hillendale Road because of a \u201cdeep sinkhole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crews are expected to inspect the road Thursday to determine next steps, the fire company said.<\/p>\n<p>Bangor Area School District buses that use the road will need to take alternate routes. Easton Area School District buses also use the road, but students there are on vacation for the Easter holiday.<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT\u2019s traffic website <a href=\"http:\/\/511pa.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">511pa.com<\/a> estimates the road will be reopened by 7 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sinkhole has closed a major road in Northampton County. Lower Mount Bethel Sandt\u2019s Eddy Fire Co. said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,2376,202,182,12279,139,434,28,432,12281],"class_list":["post-155377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-lower-mount-bethel-township","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-upper-mount-bethel-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155377","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=155377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}