{"id":81430,"date":"2026-01-08T16:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81430\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:12:11","slug":"person-hit-by-car-in-northampton-county-pedestrian-was-at-fault-and-will-be-issued-citation-police-say-bethelehm-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81430\/","title":{"rendered":"Person hit by car in Northampton County; pedestrian was at fault and will be issued citation, police say | Bethelehm Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A pedestrian was struck by a car in Bethlehem Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>It happened near North New Street and Union Boulevard, 911 dispatchers say, and the person was taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the call came in at 7:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem Police Capt. William Audelo said it was determined that the vehicle traveling northbound had a green light when the male pedestrian entered the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian appeared to have minor injuries but was taken to the hospital for treatment,\u00a0Audelo said.<\/p>\n<p>Audelo said the pedestrian was determined to be at fault and according to the report will be issued a citation.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Bethlehem pedestrian struck\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/695f0785c7a2f.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A pedestrian was struck by a car in Bethlehem Wednesday night. It happened near North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1602,26030,40433,434,34971,3628],"class_list":{"0":"post-81430","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","11":"tag-car-accident","12":"tag-emergency-response","13":"tag-hospitalization","14":"tag-northampton-county","15":"tag-pedestrian-struck","16":"tag-police-investigation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81430","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=81430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}