{"id":78329,"date":"2026-01-05T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78329\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:30:07","slug":"route-22-crash-in-bethlehem-sends-driver-to-hospital-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78329\/","title":{"rendered":"Route 22 crash in Bethlehem sends driver to hospital, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NVJRGBTKKVARRDPUUFR27EH2QA\">A male driver was injured in a collision Friday along Route 22 west in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Bethlehem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Bethlehem\">Bethlehem.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HMTDSOEZQRA43CNIVJCPKNJFGM\">Trooper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Nathan%20Branosky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Nathan%20Branosky\">Nathan Branosky,<\/a> public information officer with Pennsylvania State Police\u2019s Troop M, told lehighvalleylive.com the accident happened just after 1:50 p.m. Friday at mile marker 324.9 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Lehigh%20County\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Lehigh%20County\">Lehigh County.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OJJBGSHRCFE5LJWZKNGKKPYQKQ\">It involved a 64-year-old male driver from Bethlehem operating a 2000 Toyota Land Cruiser that collided with a 2022 Lexus operated by a 37-year-old female driver from North Whitehall, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BJEYFCHDKZGVLO736USLFZH2BI\">The male driver was injured and taken to St. Luke\u2019s University Hospital in Fountain Hill for treatment. A condition was not immediately available Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"G3VMMYS575E3TISSBPFVFM25X4\">The female driver was treated at the scene by emergency workers for a minor injury, Branosky said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5C4J5M3RCZHMZJLNYKMGTCOW3I\">The male driver is being cited for causing the accident, Branosky said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FEPQYSTF75CQDP4VKTP4RNBAFM\">Friday\u2019s accident continues to be investigated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Pennsylvania%20State%20Police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Pennsylvania%20State%20Police\">Pennsylvania State Police<\/a> in Bethlehem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A male driver was injured in a collision Friday along Route 22 west in Bethlehem. Trooper Nathan Branosky,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-78329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78329","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=78329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}