A 33-year-old man died Sunday, more than a week after his electric scooter crash in Allentown, according to authorities.
Cory Smith was pronounced dead about 10:20 p.m. Sunday at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest after a crash that happened Aug. 28, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio said.
He was riding his e-scooter about 3:20 p.m. in the area of North 16th Street and West Liberty Street when he lost control and hit his head on the road, the coroner said in a news release.
Smith’s cause of death was blunt-force injuries to the head, with the manner accidental.
Smith is the sixth person to have died in an accident involving an e-scooter or e-bike in the Lehigh Valley so far this year.
After e-bike and scooter crashes, some of them fatal, Lehigh Valley police urge caution