{"id":88447,"date":"2026-01-16T11:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/88447\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:42:20","slug":"3-injured-in-route-22-crashes-in-whitehall-township-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/88447\/","title":{"rendered":"3 injured in Route 22 crashes in Whitehall Township, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2GCFRZ7SAZAUFNJJXUQAZFZOJ4\">Two crashes at the exact same spot on Route 22 within hours left three people injured early Wednesday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Whitehall%20Township\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Whitehall%20Township\/\">Whitehall Township,<\/a> state police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XLLCTOK4R5ANZFFOT3CCTUHTFA\">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 initial accident happened just after 2:15 a.m. in the westbound lanes at MacArthur Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BFLOU7BZAJEAPPHBGLYXUEDVAE\">That accident involved a sedan and a FedEx tractor trailer. The rig hit the center median after it was struck by the sedan driver, Branosky said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NVDXLSCP7JGW5K4DZ35LQAR4EU\">The sedan driver was arrested and charged with drunken driving in the collision, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"IYDJM5T7FZCT5H37RPJ6DQZ5UM\">A second crash followed in the westbound lane shortly before 6:30 a.m. also at MacArthur Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OYO2XV4X4VBNVFWF4GFKGSEKX4\">That crash involved four vehicles: a 2020 Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross being driven by a 29-year-old Slatington man; a 2017 Honda HRV being driven by a 35-year-old Allentown woman; a 2016 Chevrolet Sonic being driven by a 40-year-old woman; and a 2024 Volvo being driven by a 35-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y. man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CZ3JNX3BL5CHDOZWKCX2G2SCV4\">There were injuries in both crashes with a total of three people taken to area hospitals for treatment, Branosky said. Conditions were not immediately available Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"GP4BY6GXDBD43AZVKKQ7EG3DJQ\">The crashes remain under investigation 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":"Two crashes at the exact same spot on Route 22 within hours left three people injured early Wednesday&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-88447","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\/88447","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=88447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88447\/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=88447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}