{"id":187615,"date":"2026-05-08T22:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187615\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T22:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:56:12","slug":"truck-trailer-causes-canopy-to-fall-in-northampton-county-slate-belt-area-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187615\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck trailer causes canopy to fall in Northampton County | Slate Belt Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON TWP., Pa. &#8211; The canopy of a Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) building entrance in Northampton County fell onto a truck with a trailer attached on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened at the LVHN Health Center at Bangor in Washington Township around 12:30 p.m., according to county dispatchers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Health Center at Bangor LVHN generic\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fe3434482cd.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen || WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>The truck&#8217;s trailer was too tall to drive underneath the canopy, causing the canopy to dislodge after the truck tried to drive under the entrance, police reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Washington Township police and fire crews responded to the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"truck canopy collapse\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"622\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fe34316ce0b.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen || WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>Officials say that there were no injuries and no entrapment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photos from the scene show the canopy, which the label &#8220;East Entrance,&#8221; collapsed on top of the truck and trailer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"truck canopy collapse at lvhn\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"622\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fe343000db1.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen || WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON TWP., Pa. &#8211; The canopy of a Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) building entrance in Northampton County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,12367],"class_list":["post-187615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-slate-belt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187615","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=187615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}