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Police and residents are seeking answers in a case in which two parked cars were heavily damaged in a violent hit-and-run accident on the border between Lower Saucon Township and Bethlehem near the Bethlehem Fields apartment complex Sunday at approximately 1:40 a.m.
According to a Facebook post by Mary Rockel–the mother of one of the affected vehicle owners–the cars owned by “two 20-somethings” were “destroyed” when a man driving a dark, possibly grey, “jacked-up” Ford F-150 pickup with a loud exhaust system turned too fast from Cherry Lane onto Easton Road and “plowed into a yard, taking down a tree and getting stuck in the mud.”
Rockel posted that the driver of the pickup then “floored it” in order to back out of the yard, lost control and struck the parked cars.
Since the wreck happened on the border of several municipalities, Bethlehem city police responded, but the Lower Saucon Township Police Department is leading the investigation because “most of the damage was in Lower Saucon,” Rockel said.
The cars sustained extensive body and frame damage, according to Rockel.
The pickup and its driver were last seen headed east on Easton Road into Lower Saucon Township, she said.
Anyone with information about the crash should call Lower Saucon Township police at 610-759-2200 or 610-317-6110.
If this was not one of our local yahoos, I am guessing Lehigh/Lafayette game would be the place to look. Too bad they don’t have camera’s in their parking lots and fields. I walk Timmytoo over there everyday, and it is utterly amazing how people of means can be such pigs. The clean up crew was out when I got there at six Sunday morning. Even the seagulls were there. It was like a garbage dump. Lehigh’s president is doing great things with new ball fields etc, but he has let that area of Goodman slide these past few years. We have been here for 26 years and watched the land blossom with baseball field, hockey fields, golf practice range, all great things for the the student/athletes. Back when the maintenence crews were all from Central America or Mexico the place was spotless, everyday, not just when something was going on. Now it is always littered with trash. It only gets cleaned up when something is happening. I wish I had a camera with me yesterday. All the wealthy people in their big motor homes sleeping in a parking lot. On Saturday, late in the afternoon when the game was over, I took Timmytoo over for his walk. Stepping over the refuse was bad enough but as we walked along the fence behind cars and motor homes, we happened on a “gentleman” urinating at the back of his motor home. Caught in the act so to speak. Beer can in one hand, personal urinating device in the other. There was a bathroom inside the motor home, not to mention the tons of porta potties all over the place. Nothing turns “normal” people into college like pigs like money and beer. Can’t wait to go over today and see how the crew did. This was the second clean up team. The “new” white crew does not handle the dirty work, or weekend work. They would have to get overtime. Shame, shame, shame.