{"id":21966,"date":"2025-11-01T20:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21966\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T20:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:57:08","slug":"breaking-motorcycle-and-car-collide-in-hilltown-sending-at-least-one-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21966\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Motorcycle and car collide in Hilltown, sending at least one to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/northpennnow.com\/photos\/2025\/nov\/01\/212813\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image_46_t800.JPG\" alt=\"Credit: James Short.\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n                        Credit: James Short. <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 7px; font-style: italic; font-size: 14px;  \" class=\"mb-4 article-subhead\">Crash near Hilltown Walmart sends one to hospital, causes heavy traffic backups along Bethlehem Pike<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews are on the scene of a serious two-vehicle crash involving a motorcycle and a silver four-door Nissan on Bethlehem Pike, directly in front of the Walmart entrance located at 1515 Bethlehem Pike.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 2:16 p.m. Saturday The Nissan sustained heavy front-end damage, and the motorcycle was found laying on its side in front of the car, with debris scattered across the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>At least one person has been transported to a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem Pike northbound has been reduced to one lane, and traffic is backed up at least one mile in each direction.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are urged to avoid the area and expect major delays as crews clear the scene and investigate the crash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltown.org\/departments\/police\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hilltown Township Police<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltownfirerescue.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hilltown Fire Company<\/a> are still on-site. Emergency crews from <a href=\"https:\/\/vmscems.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VMSCS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gvh.org\/where-to-give\/medic-151-ambulance-service\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grandview\u00a0<\/a>responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Updates to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: James Short. Crash near Hilltown Walmart sends one to hospital, causes heavy traffic backups along Bethlehem Pike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-21966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21966","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=21966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}