Published April 17. 2026 01:17PM<\/p>\n
District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan and Capt. Seth J. Kelly, Pennsylvania State Police Troop M Commanding Officer announce a woman is charged in a fatal wrong-way crash that occurred in 2025 on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.<\/p>\n
Onanyeli Rosario-Mesa, 25, of Allentown, is charged with felony counts of homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence, homicide by vehicle and other charges including involuntary manslaughter, recklessly endangering another person, driving under the influence\/unsafe driving, DUI\/BAC 0.10 to 0.16 percent, careless driving \u2013 unintentional death and one-way roadways \u2013 driving on one-way roadway.<\/p>\n
An arrest warrant has been filed for Rosario-Mesa, but she remains at large.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about her is asked to call 911.<\/p>\n
According to Holihan, around 9 a.m. March 30, Pennsylvania State Police were called to a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 476 northbound at mile marker 67.0 in Washington Township.<\/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.<\/p>\n
There were two damaged motorcycles at the scene.<\/p>\n
One driver, identified as 50-year-old John Sweeney Jr., was deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n
Sweeney died from blunt force injuries due to a motorcycle\/motor vehicle crash and his death was ruled accidental by the Lehigh County Coroner.<\/p>\n
Several 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.<\/p>\n
The investigation also revealed Rosario-Mesa\u2019s vehicle struck the group of motorcyclists, killing the victim and endangering several others.<\/p>\n
This case was investigated by Trooper Brian Hrycyszn of the Pennsylvania State Police and will be prosecuted by Chief Deputy District Attorney V. Paul Bernardino III.<\/p>\n
Onanyeli Rosario-Mesa, of Allentown, is charged with the March 30, 2025 fatal wrong-way crash in Washington Township.PHOTO COURTESY LEHIGH COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY\u2019S OFFICE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published April 17. 2026 01:17PM District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan and Capt. Seth J. Kelly, Pennsylvania State Police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-168727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168727","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=168727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}