{"id":204073,"date":"2026-05-28T01:38:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204073\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T01:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:38:31","slug":"u-haul-trailer-damages-utility-pole-temporarily-closes-road-in-salisbury-township-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204073\/","title":{"rendered":"U-Haul trailer damages utility pole, temporarily closes road in Salisbury Township | Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALISBURY TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; A road in Lehigh County was temporarily closed on Wednesday due to an accident involving a utility pole.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Salisbury Township Police closed the intersection of Route 145 and South 4th Street due to the incident in the area of South Pike Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A U-Haul trailer struck a Verizon utility pole at South 4th and Normandy Streets, severely damaging the pole and bringing down wires around 5:00 p.m..<\/p>\n<p>Allentown police responded to the scene and were assisted by Salisbury Township police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say that nobody was injured in the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>South Pike Avenue was temporarily closed but has since been reopened, according to the township.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALISBURY TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; A road in Lehigh County was temporarily closed on Wednesday due to an accident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,1704],"class_list":["post-204073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204073","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=204073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}