Published July 18. 2026 09:04AM<\/p>\n
A 2-year-old boy from Slatington was taken to a hospital after a two-vehicle crash at 3:27 p.m. June 22 on Route 309 in North Whitehall Township, state police at the Bethlehem barracks said.<\/p>\n
Police said he was taken by personnel from the Northern Valley Ambulance to the Lehigh Valley Hospital, Cedar Crest Campus, Salisbury Township, for a medical evaluation.<\/p>\n
They said the boy and a 14-year-old boy from Slatington were passengers in a 2018 Ford Explorer driven by Christina M. Kaplan, 34, of Slatington.<\/p>\n
They said she failed to yield at a red traffic light and entered the intersection with Pennsylvania Drive, where the Ford was hit by a 1999 Jeep Cherokee driven northbound on Route 309 by Michael L. Stein, 57, of Slatington.<\/p>\n
Both drivers and the 14-year-old boy were not injured, police said.<\/p>\n
Both vehicles had disabling damage and were towed from the scene.<\/p>\n
Kaplan was cited after the crash, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published July 18. 2026 09:04AM A 2-year-old boy from Slatington was taken to a hospital after a two-vehicle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-246632","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\/246632","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=246632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246632\/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=246632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}