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Onanyeli Rosario-Mesa mug shot<\/p>\n
Courtesy of the Lehigh County District Attorney<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON TWP., Pa. – Charges have been filed one year after a wrong-way driver hit and killed a motorcyclist on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.<\/p>\n
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
Police say around 9 a.m. March 30, 2025, Pennsylvania State Police were called to a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 476 northbound at mile marker 67.0 in Washington Township, Lehigh County.<\/p>\n
Several witnesses had called 911 and said a vehicle driven by Rosario-Mesa was driving the wrong way in the northbound lanes when her vehicle hit several motorcyclists, according to a press release from the Lehigh County DA\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
The witnesses, as well as video surveillance footage, showed Rosario-Mesa\u2019s vehicle driving southbound in the northbound lanes, passing several vehicles that pulled to the side of the road to avoid her, the release says.<\/p>\n
Officers say there were two damaged motorcycles at the scene. One driver, identified as 50-year-old John Sweeney Jr., was pronounced dead at the scene. Sweeney died from blunt force injuries due to motorcycle\/motor vehicle crash and his death was ruled accidental by the Lehigh County Coroner.<\/p>\n
A blood draw at the hospital allegedly yielded a 0.104% BAC, which would place the defendant over the legal limit.<\/p>\n
Police say an arrest warrant has been filed for Rosario-Mesa, but she remains at large. Anyone with information about her is asked to call 911.<\/p>\n
This case is being investigated by the PSP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Onanyeli Rosario-Mesa mug shot Courtesy of the Lehigh County District Attorney WASHINGTON TWP., Pa. – Charges have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162609,"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-162608","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\/162608","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=162608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}