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State police at Lehighton - crashes

State police at the Lehighton barracks reported the following crashes:

• A Lansford man escaped injury when he crashed his car near the intersection of Interchange and Stagecoach roads in Towamensing Township.

Police said Kamil Betka, 32, was traveling south at 11:53 a.m. June 6 on Interchange Road when his vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree. His vehicle was towed and Betka was cited for speeding, police said.

• State police charged Joshua Schuler, 37, of Stroudsburg with driving under the influence of alcohol following 8 p.m. June 7 crash on Interchange Road in Polk Township.

Police said Schuler was driving north and did not keep a safe distance between his vehicle and one in front of him. Schuler’s vehicle crashed into the vehicle. Police said Schuler fled the scene of the crash. Police stopped Schuler about 2 miles away and charged him.

• No one was injured in a 4:51 p.m. June 1 crash on Route 248 near the Bowmanstown exit.

According to police, a driver was traveling east when his vehicle’s tire blew out. The driver lost control, struck the concrete barrier and then hit another eastbound vehicle.

The drivers of both vehicles were 16 years old, police said.

• State police said Josiah Gaston, 24, avoided serious injury after he crashed his car on Route 115 near Kunkletown Road around 6 a.m. June 1.

Police said Gaston was traveling north when he lost control, causing the vehicle to leave the roadway, strike a utility pole and travel down an embankment.

Police said Wind Gap EMS evaluated Gaston on the scene but he refused further medical treatment. His vehicle was towed and he was cited.

• Vicky Servis, 58, of Bloomsbury, New Jersey, was not injured in a one-vehicle accident at 3 p.m. May 23 on Interchange Road in Polk Township.

State police said Servis was driving north when her vehicle left the roadway, struck a mailbox, traveled through bushes and came to rest against a large rock. Her vehicle was towed and she received a traffic citation, police said.

• State police said charges are pending against a man who drove into propane tanks on a property on Weir Lake Road in Ross Township.

Police said Joseph Ramsey, 22, of Saylorsburg, was traveling south when his vehicle left the roadway and struck the tanks. He was not injured.

• State police said Taryn Haydt, 25, of Palmerton, was not injured in a one-vehicle crash that occurred at 6:04 a.m. May 14 on West Lizard Creek Road near Germans Road in East Penn Township.

According to police, Haydt was traveling east in heavy rain when she lost control of her vehicle. The vehicle struck a tree and suffered disabling damages.

Police said Haydt refused medical treatment. Police were assisted by Strohl’s Towing and the EASt Penn Fire Company. Police cited Haydt for driving at a safe speed.

• A 17 year-old East Stroudsburg boy was transported to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono following a 10:29 May 13 crash on Kunkletown Road near Ross Road.

According to police, the teen was traveling east at a high rate of speed during a downpour and lost control of his car. His vehicle slid off the road and hit a tree.

His vehicle had heavy damages, police said. The teen will receive a traffic citation.

Police were assisted by Lehigh Valley Ambulance and Tittle’s Towing.

• No one was injured in a crash that occurred at 11:20 a.m. May 7 in Polk Township.

According to police, Raymond Roman Jr., 34, of Effort, drove into the back of a vehicle driven by Carley Rehrig, 19, of Kunkletown, on Scene Drive near Barry Road. Police said Rehrig had stopped in the eastbound lane waiting for traffic to clear when her vehicle was struck.

Roman’s vehicle was towed from the scene. He was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.

• No one was injured in a two-vehicle crash at 4:51 p.m. June 1 on Route 248 in Bowmanstown.

Police said the crash occurred as a 16-year-old girl from Northampton was driving a 2005 Mini Cooper when it experienced a driver’s side tire failure.

She lost control of the car, which struck the concrete barrier that divides the east and west lanes before striking a 1998 Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck that was driven by a 16-year-old boy from Walnutport, police said.

• Josiah R. Gaston, 24, of Hellertown, was cited after a one-vehicle crash at 6:02 a.m. June 1 on Route 115 in Ross Township, police said.

He had minor injuries but refused a medical transport from the scene, police said.

They said he was driving a 2011 Subaru Legacy northbound when he lost control of the car, which left the roadway, hit a utility pole, continued down an embankment and then came to rest in a wooded area.

The Legacy was towed from the scene, police said.