{"id":199126,"date":"2026-05-21T19:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199126\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:05:09","slug":"turnpike-crashes-times-news-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199126\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnpike crashes \u2013 Times News Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published May 21. 2026 02:45PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">State police at the Pocono barracks reported the following crashes that occurred on the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2022 Damage was minor in a crash in the area of the Allentown Exit, South Whitehall Township, at 2:35 p.m. May 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">A tractor-trailer entered the left lane of traffic, where it struck the side view mirror of a 2019 Ford Escape driven by Dean A. Messinger, 65, of Palmerton, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2022 Denzel A. Gibbs, 32, of Matamoris, was uninjured in a one-vehicle crash at 9:28 p.m. May 18 at mile marker 80.8 in Penn Forest Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Police said he was operating a 2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee northbound when it struck a deer that entered the highway from the left side of the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published May 21. 2026 02:45PM State police at the Pocono barracks reported the following crashes that occurred on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-199126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199126","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=199126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}