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Driver Charged in 2025 Pa. Turnpike Wrong-Way Death Sought on Arrest Warrant

The filing followed a yearlong probe that drew on video, crash reconstruction, phone records.

Overview

  • Lehigh County prosecutors charged Onanyeli Rosario-Mesa, 25, in the fatal I-476 crash, and police say she remains wanted on an arrest warrant.
  • Investigators say witness accounts and video show her driving south in the northbound lanes near mile marker 67 and striking a group of motorcyclists.
  • One rider, 50-year-old John Sweeney Jr., was pronounced dead at the scene from blunt force injuries, which the coroner ruled an accidental death.
  • The district attorney says a hospital blood test measured her blood alcohol at 0.104%, which is above the legal limit.
  • Authorities ask anyone with information on Rosario-Mesa’s whereabouts to call 911.