{"id":215646,"date":"2026-06-10T15:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215646\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:56:26","slug":"fleeing-pickup-slams-into-tree-during-pa-state-police-allentown-pursuit-2-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215646\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleeing Pickup Slams Into Tree During PA State Police Allentown Pursuit; 2 Hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident unfolded around 2:24 a.m. on Friday, May 1, when troopers from PSP Fogelsville attempted to stop a 2015 Ford F-250 near 31st Street SW and West Emmaus Avenue in Allentown, according to the release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver refused to stop, fleeing at a high rate of speed before losing control and crashing into a tree along the 3100 block of Lindberg Avenue, state police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Troopers immediately rendered aid to the two occupants \u2014 both 30-year-old men from Allentown, Pennsylvania \u2014 before they were transported to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest by Cetronia Ambulance for treatment of their injuries, authorities detailed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Road closures were put in place at Fish Hatchery Road at Oxford Drive and 24th Street at Lindberg Avenue during the investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania State Police Troop M Major Case Team is leading the investigation, with assistance from collision reconstruction specialists, forensic services, multiple fire departments, and PennDOT, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"e-click-here-follow-btn\" data-testid=\"bottom-paragraph\">\n            <a class=\"e-email-signup\" js-follow-button=\"\" data-testid=\"article-click-here-to-subscribe\">Click here<\/a><br \/>\n            to follow Daily Voice<\/p>\n<p>              Allentown<\/p>\n<p>            and receive free news updates.\n          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident unfolded around 2:24 a.m. on Friday, May 1, when troopers from PSP Fogelsville attempted to stop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-215646","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\/215646","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=215646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}