A 19-year-old was seriously injured after he was hit by a car Tuesday night on Bethlehem\u2019s West Side.<\/p>\n
The man was hit by a car about 10:30 p.m. in the 1200 block of West Broad Street, city police said in a news release. Authorities found him lying in the street, suffering from severe injuries. He was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of those injuries, which police said are potentially life-threatening.<\/p>\n
The driver and the vehicle remained at the scene after the crash, and police said the driver is cooperating with investigators. There is no indication that impairment was a factor in the crash, police said.<\/p>\n
Witness statements indicate that the man tried to cross the road between vehicles right before the crash, the release states.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 610-997-7666.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old was seriously injured after he was hit by a car Tuesday night on Bethlehem\u2019s West Side.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-209500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209500","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=209500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}