UNION TWP., Pa. (EYT) \u2014 A New Bethlehem man was injured after state police say he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed early Thursday morning on Interstate 80.<\/p>\n
According to DuBois-based State Police, the one-vehicle crash occurred around 5:54 a.m. on November 6.<\/p>\n
Police say 19-year-old Levi G. Neiswonger, of New Bethlehem, was driving a 2013 Chevrolet Cruze eastbound on I-80 in Union Township, Jefferson County. He was traveling in the right lane when he fell asleep, according to police.<\/p>\n
The vehicle went off the road at approximately the 76.6-mile marker and struck a traffic sign and a guide rail before coming to a rest in the wooded median.<\/p>\n
Police say Neiswonger was using a seat belt and suffered suspected minor injuries. He refused EMS care at the scene.<\/p>\n
Neiswonger was cited with a violation for driving on roadways laned for traffic.<\/p>\n
Jefferson County EMS, Pine Creek Volunteer Fire Department, and Bricen Towing assisted at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNION TWP., Pa. (EYT) \u2014 A New Bethlehem man was injured after state police say he fell asleep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-30173","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\/30173","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=30173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}