{"id":79277,"date":"2026-01-06T14:41:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79277\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:41:04","slug":"car-crashes-down-embankment-in-lehigh-county-elderly-driver-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79277\/","title":{"rendered":"Car crashes down embankment in Lehigh County, elderly driver hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/lehigh-county\/\" title=\"Navigate to Lehigh County\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lehigh County<\/a>Published: Jan. 06, 2026, 9:15 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Car crashes down embankment in Lehigh County, elderly driver hurt\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3WZO4QALQBEEPC4N5A5QOCQ67Q.JPG\"  \/>The 79-year-old woman was taken to an area hospital after losing control of her vehicle on East Rock Road and traveling approximately 50 yards from her Salisbury Township home, police said.Chris Post File Photo | For lehighvalleylive.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"GC7BSBTS4FGUPM6JLDDHO3K4ZY\">A 79-year-old driver was hurt when she lost control of her vehicle and went down an embankment in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Salisbury%20Township\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Salisbury%20Township\">Salisbury Township,<\/a> police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5WRS4YHZ4RABTPD24XXJ36KOJQ\">Township Police Sgt. Bryan Losagio said the accident happened shortly before 4 p.m. Friday in the 400 block of East Rock Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VRKTJT3FMRENFPR2AKMGSKWY4Q\">The driver drove off a private driveway, traveled down the embankment and crashed into a wooded area about 50 yards from her home, Losagio said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"B4WNOLJNDZB2VLYITQH3V5NN74\">She was injured and taken to an area hospital for treatment. Losagio said her injuries appeared minor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"IAIMW4IZBZG33K446OUNWW4ENE\">There were no other reported injuries. No charges were filed in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Pamela Sroka-Holzmann is an award-winning journalist, covering breaking, crime and public safety news for The Express-Times and lehighvalleylive.com. She also sometimes covers business news. Followers on X know&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehigh CountyPublished: Jan. 06, 2026, 9:15 a.m.The 79-year-old woman was taken to an area hospital after losing control&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,3635,206,40347],"class_list":{"0":"post-79277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-fbi","12":"tag-police","13":"tag-salisbury"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79277","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=79277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}