{"id":69147,"date":"2025-12-24T03:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69147\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T03:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:52:07","slug":"man-sentenced-to-state-prison-for-2022-fatal-allentown-crash-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69147\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to state prison for 2022 fatal Allentown crash | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A man was sentenced Tuesday for causing a fatal crash while under the influence in Allentown back in 2022.<\/p>\n

Shaba Xavier Hill, 26, of Allentown, pleaded guilty on Oct. 22, 2025 to a felony charge of Homicide by Vehicle while Driving Under the Influence and a misdemeanor charge of Driving Under the Influence of Controlled Substances \u2013 Combination of Alcohol and Drugs.<\/p>\n

Hill was sentenced Tuesday in a hearing to serve 5 to 10 years in prison, according to a news release from the District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n

Authorities say at 5:47 a.m. Oct. 30, 2022, Allentown Police were called to Springhouse Road and Springwood Drive for a crash involving a pedestrian. Officers found a Subaru Outlook idling on the right curbside of Springhouse Road.<\/p>\n

A victim, later identified as John C. Nick<\/a>, was laying just north of the pedestrian crosswalk at the intersection of Springwood Drive, according to police.<\/p>\n

Nick, 77, of Allentown, died of multiple blunt force Injuries due to the collision and his death was ruled accidental by the Lehigh County Coroner.<\/p>\n

Hill was identified as the driver and officers on scene say they noticed he had the odor of marijuana and his breath smelled of alcohol.<\/p>\n

Court documents say blood results for Hill showed the presence of methamphetamine and cannabinoids and an alcohol level of 0.144 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A man was sentenced Tuesday for causing a fatal crash while under the influence in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,18837,6977,36528,1024,3297,36529,328,36527,36530],"class_list":["post-69147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-dui","tag-fatal-crash","tag-john-c-nick","tag-lehigh-county-coroner","tag-marijuana","tag-methamphetamine","tag-prison-sentence","tag-shaba-xavier-hill","tag-springhouse-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69147","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=69147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}