{"id":178474,"date":"2026-04-28T18:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178474\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:26:21","slug":"man-dies-after-running-off-the-road-in-bethlehem-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178474\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after running off the road in Bethlehem, NC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) \u2014 A Taylorsville man has lost his life after a crash Thursday afternoon, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol (NCSHP).<\/p>\n<p>Around 2:12 on April 23, troopers responded to a crash on Rink Dam Road near Wittenburg Springs Drive in Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say a 2017 Dodge Durango was driving east on Rink Dam Road when it went off the right side of the road and crashed into a mailbox and a tree.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qcnews.com\/charlotte\/investigators-use-familial-dna-to-crack-33-year-old-sexual-assault-case-in-charlotte\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tInvestigators use familial DNA to crack 33-year-old sexual assault case in Charlotte\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The driver, 66-year-old Peter Joseph Gardner, died from his injuries at the site of the crash. <\/p>\n<p>Officials do not believe that speed or impairment was a cause of the crash. Witnesses said Gardner may have had a medical incident before the crash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) \u2014 A Taylorsville man has lost his life after a crash Thursday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-178474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178474","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=178474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}