Lower Saucon Township Police said in a news release Wednesday that a 41-year-old Hellertown man was cited for careless driving and leaving the scene of an accident after allegedly striking a block pier at the Creekside Marketplace shopping center on Leithsville Road on the morning of Oct. 26.
A block pier at Creekside Marketplace shopping center on Leithsville Road in Lower Saucon Township was heavily damaged in an Oct. 26 accident in which a Hellertown man has been cited, police said Wednesday.
Police said the pier was severely damaged after Giuseppe Rotundo III, 41, of the 200 block of Constitution Avenue, drove a white SUV into it and then left the scene, parking at the nearby Giant supermarket “to go inside shopping.”
“A short time later (Rotundo) was driving past the accident scene and was ordered to stop, but hit a parked car, causing damage,” police said. “(Rotundo’s) white SUV had heavy front end damage, was leaking fluids and both airbags had deployed from hitting the block pier.”
Police said officers subsequently learned Rotundo had been involved in another accident in a different vehicle earlier that day, and that there had been airbag deployment in that crash as well.
Rotundo was taken to St. Luke’s University Hospital “to be checked for possible head trauma from numerous airbag deployments,” police added.
