{"id":113338,"date":"2026-02-13T20:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113338\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:05:08","slug":"1-person-dead-in-route-145-crash-in-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113338\/","title":{"rendered":"1 person dead in Route 145 crash in Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/northampton-county\/\" title=\"Navigate to Northampton County\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northampton County<\/a>Published: Feb. 13, 2026, 2:30 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Motorist dies in Route 145 crash in Northampton County\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UFWC5WCOWFC7LK2J7RGG2BGROY.jpeg\"  \/>Authorities investigate a fatal, two-vehicle crash involving a tractor-trailer Friday, Feb. 13, 2025, on Route 145 in Walnutport.Mike Nester | lehighvalleylive.com contributor<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SYNPFYTCPRAD3ACMGT4IH34ULQ\">A motorist was pronounced dead at the scene of a crash Friday morning in Northampton County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YWBOZRYJ7VH23OPZZS5NPXA4NM\">The crash was reported just before 9:40 a.m. on North Best Avenue (Route 145) at Spruce Street in Walnutport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"52WX37CX2NDT7JGDDLWFGFE5Y4\">County Coroner Zachary Lysek said one occupant of a small SUV was pronounced dead following the collision with a tractor-trailer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CLH3DVYMMREQ5HDZZE3FA7FNEY\">Lysek was not immediately releasing further information, including the person\u2019s identity, pending notification of family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"T2ZMZ3NSHJCIBMLRUZDJ2VWTUI\">Authorities closed Route 145 into the afternoon due to the crash just south of the border with Lehigh Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UUKVK2GJZZBWRFWGMJFMMNW3DY\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100076408354675\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100076408354675\">Walnutport police<\/a> did not immediately release information.<\/p>\n<p>Kurt Bresswein is a supervising reporter for lehighvalleylive.com and The Express-Times. He covers outdoors and breaking news. A full-time staff member since 2001 after a news internship in Allentown and his&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northampton CountyPublished: Feb. 13, 2026, 2:30 p.m.Authorities investigate a fatal, two-vehicle crash involving a tractor-trailer Friday, Feb. 13,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-113338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}