{"id":308666,"date":"2026-10-17T10:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308666\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T10:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:54:16","slug":"passenger-grabbed-steering-wheel-during-argument-causing-pickup-truck-to-overturn-on-route-33-state-police-say-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308666\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger grabbed steering wheel during argument, causing pickup truck to overturn on Route 33, state police say | Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa. &#8211; Pennsylvania State Police said a man in a pickup truck grabbed the steering wheel during an argument with the driver, causing it to overturn on Route 33 in Northampton County Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old man is charged with recklessly endangering another person, criminal mischief, and disorderly conduct, state police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Court paperwork identifies the man as Greg Robert Garofolo. He faces a preliminary hearing Nov. 4.<\/p>\n<p>State police said troopers responded to Route 33 southbound in Bethlehem Township for the report of a rollover crash shortly before noon Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Garofolo was arguing with the driver when he allegedly grabbed the steering wheel, causing the truck to lose control, strike the guardrail, and overturn, according to state police.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities took Garofolo into custody at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was brought to the hospital for treatment for her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa. &#8211; Pennsylvania State Police said a man in a pickup truck grabbed the steering wheel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,10951,1994,1224,488,49566,37038,102451],"class_list":["post-308666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-argument","tag-bethlehem-township","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-pickup-truck","tag-rollover-crash","tag-route-33","tag-steering-wheel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308666","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=308666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}