{"id":162541,"date":"2026-04-10T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162541\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:30:09","slug":"driver-charged-in-fatal-wrong-way-crash-on-pa-turnpike-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162541\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver charged in fatal wrong-way crash on Pa Turnpike | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON TWP., Pa. &#8211; Charges have been filed one year after a wrong-way driver hit and killed a motorcyclist on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.<\/p>\n<p>25-year-old Onanyeli Rosario-Mesa of Allentown is charged with homicide by vehicle while DUI, involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and related offenses.<\/p>\n<p>On March 30, 2025, police say Rosario-Mesa was driving southbound in the northbound lanes of the turnpike in Washington Township, Lehigh County when she struck two motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p>One of the motorcycle riders, John Sweeney, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, several witnesses reported seeing Rosario-Mesa&#8217;s car driving southbound in the northbound lanes prior to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>A blood draw at the hospital allegedly yielded a 0.104% BAC, which would place the defendant over the legal limit.<\/p>\n<p>Online court records list Rosario-Mesa as not in custody at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON TWP., Pa. &#8211; Charges have been filed one year after a wrong-way driver hit and killed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,69407,433,73350,10397,28,4696,13364,1049],"class_list":{"0":"post-162541","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-john-sweeney","12":"tag-lehigh-county","13":"tag-onanyeli-rosario-mesa","14":"tag-pa-turnpike","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-pennsylvania-turnpike","17":"tag-washington-township","18":"tag-wrong-way-driving"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162541","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=162541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}