{"id":249702,"date":"2026-07-22T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249702\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:00:10","slug":"crash-in-allentown-speeder-hits-car-flees-scene-caught-by-state-police-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249702\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash in Allentown: Speeder hits car, flees scene, caught by state police | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; State police are investigating a crash that happened Wednesday afternoon in Allentown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say that at approximately 1:06 p.m., troopers from the Bethlehem Station were dispatched to the intersection of North 6th Street and Cedar Street for a reported crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Upon investigation, it was determined that a car operated by a 24-year-old Allentown man was driving at a high rate of speed, according to state police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That car went through a stop sign and broadsided another car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The car that was hit then struck a home near the intersection of the crash due to the impact, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Two vehicle crash in Allentown - 7\/22\/26\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1837\" height=\"1033\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a6110619d345.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Nester Video Production | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>Police say that man ran from the scene and hid in the neighborhood for more than a half hour before he was caught by troopers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Two vehicle crash in Allentown - 7\/22\/26\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a6110636305b.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Nester Video Production | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>Both occupants of the car that was struck were taken to a local hospital for their injuries, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Allentown man will be criminally charged, according to state police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This investigation is currently ongoing by the Bethlehem Station Criminal Investigation Unit and Bethlehem Patrol Unit.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; State police are investigating a crash that happened Wednesday afternoon in Allentown.\u00a0 Authorities say that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,232,153,155,154],"class_list":["post-249702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown-area","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249702","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=249702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}