Published July 14. 2026 02:45PM<\/p>\n
State police at the Bethlehem barracks reported the following crashes:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Christopher A. Cassel, 36, of Kutztown, is facing charges of driving under the influence of alcohol following a one-vehicle crash at 8:07 p.m. May 1 on Newside Road, Heidelberg Township, police said.<\/p>\n
A 7-year-old girl from Germansville who was a passenger in the vehicle had minor injuries after the crash, police said.<\/p>\n
Cassel was driving a 2013 Chevrolet Silverado that crashed on a Newside Road bridge just north on Route 309, police said. They said he was transported to the Lehigh County Prison, Allentown.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Inna Garanina, 42, of New Ringgold, was uninjured when the vehicle she was driving hit a deer that had entered its path on Mountain Road, Heidelberg Township, at 12:18 a.m. June 21.<\/p>\n
Police said she was westbound in a 2012 Kia Sorrento at the time.<\/p>\n
The vehicle had disabling damage and was towed from the scene.<\/p>\n
\u2022 James J. Wiley, 66, of Schnecksville, was cited after a one-vehicle crash at 5:59 p.m. June 20 on Game Preserve Road, North Whitehall Township, police said. He was uninjured in the incident.<\/p>\n
Police said he was driving a 2005 Chevrolet Equinox eastbound when it hit a utility pole on the right side of the road. Wiley told police he swerved to avoid hitting a deer that had entered the roadway.<\/p>\n
The vehicle had disabling damage and was towed from the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published July 14. 2026 02:45PM State police at the Bethlehem barracks reported the following crashes: \u2022 Christopher A.…\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-243462","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\/243462","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=243462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243462\/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=243462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}