Firefighters rescued a driver by cutting apart his vehicle, which was wedged on its side against a traffic signal pole, Thursday outside Bethlehem, police said.<\/p>\n
The 47-year-old from Catasauqua was taken by ambulance to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg and stabilized, according to a news release from Colonial Regional police. <\/p>\n
The crash occurred about 10:20 a.m. in Hanover Township, Northampton County, as the driver was headed north on Schoenersville Road, police said.<\/p>\n
The driver claims he swerved right to avoid colliding with a vehicle turning left into his path onto Illick\u2019s Mill Road, according to police.<\/p>\n
He then crashed head-on into a utility pole, cutting power to the area and causing his 2006 Nissan Pathfinder to flip onto its driver\u2019s side up against the traffic signal support.<\/p>\n
Photos posted by Lehigh Valley Breaking News on Facebook<\/a> showed the vehicle with extensive damage as authorities responded.<\/p>\n PPL Electric Utilities worked to replace the utility pole and restore power to the area, police said.<\/p>\n Assisting Colonial Regional police were Hanover Township Volunteer Fire Co. EMS and firefighters and the Bethlehem Police and Fire departments, according to the release.<\/p>\n Police were continuing to investigate the crash and asked any witnesses to call officer S. Nigro<\/a> at 610-861-4820.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters rescued a driver by cutting apart his vehicle, which was wedged on its side against a traffic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-4273","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\/4273","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=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}