It would behoove drivers driving around St. Luke’s in Allentown to maybe follow the rules of the road, even if it’s a private parking lot.
A frustrated Allentown-area driver and Redditor working at St. Luke’s, /u/FluffyLittlFlyingCow, shared headshaking dashcam footage from earlier in April (Apr 28, 2026) to the /r/IdiotsInCars subreddit showing what they say is an everyday occurrence.
Check out the poor adherence to the rules of the road below with the original Reddit thread linked here.
The incident happened at St. Luke’s Orthopedic Hospital, located at the West End Campus, off Cetronia Rd. (Exact location on Google Maps linked here.)
As the dashcam shows, OP enters St. Luke’s and heads left.
Drivers at the T-intersection have stop signs and, as per “reasonable and safe driving” rules, they are expected to obey said stop signs.
OP says what happens next is an every-morning occurrence, drivers not stopping at the stop sign, brute forcing their way through, and they doing their best to avoid a t-bone accident.
Thankfully, the BMW driver slowed to let them in front of them, as they should’ve done if they had stopped and yielded their right of way as they should’ve.
“I love how you made them stop after they totally blew their sign,” one of the top comments from /u/Kajunator reads.
“You missed the perfect opportunity to yell “HEY YOU” at them for turning without stopping,” /u/-dakpluto- added.
“For some reason, people can’t seem to grasp that an ingress to a large complex almost never has a ‘STOP’, as it would back people up into the street and inhibit traffic,” /u/Nathanaz pointed out.
In Allentown, PA, rolling through a stop sign in a private parking lot is usually not cited as a standard traffic violation, but if it nearly causes a crash it can be charged as careless driving or unsafe operation of a vehicle. Fines typically land around $100–$300+ with court costs, depending on how it’s charged and whether a crash or police report is involved. Pennsylvania uses a point system, and a careless driving-type conviction is commonly 3 points, though private-property incidents often get handled more through liability and insurance than strict traffic-point enforcement.
