Published October 24. 2026 09:00AM<\/p>\n
Joseph Balik, 60, of Slatington, is facing charges of driving under the influence of alcohol following a one-car crash, state police at the Bethlehem barracks said.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred, police said, at 8:39 p.m. Oct. 2 at the intersection of Glencrest and Park Valley roads, North Whitehall Township.<\/p>\n
Police said they were dispatched to the intersection after receiving calls of a car off the roadway and down an embankment. They said a 2014 Chevrolet Cruze was northbound on Park Valley Road at a high rate of speed when it left the road, hit a tree and was propelled down an embankment, landing in thick brush.<\/p>\n
Police said Balik was identified as the operator of the vehicle. They said he climbed out of the vehicle and walked to his home, which was about a mile from the crash site. Police said he was contacted and was visibly intoxicated and had a cut on his arm but declined medical attention.<\/p>\n
Police said Balik admitted to consuming alcohol before operating the vehicle and agreed to take standardized field sobriety tests, which indicated signs of impairment.<\/p>\n
He was transported to the Lehigh Valley Hospital, Muhlenberg Campus, Bethlehem, for a blood draw.<\/p>\n
The vehicle was towed from the scene.<\/p>\n
Balik was also cited for failure to drive at a safe speed, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published October 24. 2026 09:00AM Joseph Balik, 60, of Slatington, is facing charges of driving under the influence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-313546","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\/313546","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=313546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}