{"id":114341,"date":"2026-02-15T02:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114341\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T02:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:14:10","slug":"coroner-identifies-suv-driver-who-died-friday-in-crash-with-tractor-trailer-in-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114341\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies SUV driver who died Friday in crash with tractor trailer 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. 14, 2026, 8:57 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 were investigating 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=\"GE3OOGICXFHTHHA3H3OR7VDKRY\">A Carbon County man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/northampton-county\/2026\/02\/1-person-dead-in-route-145-crash-in-northampton-county.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/northampton-county\/2026\/02\/1-person-dead-in-route-145-crash-in-northampton-county.html\">died Friday<\/a> after the SUV he was driving collided with a tractor trailer, according to the Northampton County coroner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JPTIMZOI6BFGXLBL7NWGZ3ENQY\">Francesco Scutari, 86, of Towamensing Township, died in the crash just before 9:40 a.m. on North Best Avenue (Route 145) at Spruce Street in Walnutport, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RKJ72F7445BWRPM5LNLWSAB5T4\">Scutari was the sole occupant of the SUV, according to a statement from coroner Zachary Lysek. Scutari died from multiple blunt force injuries and the manner of death was an accident, Lysek reported.<\/p>\n<p>Rudy Miller is a supervising reporter for lehighvalleylive.com. He has published award-winning, in-depth investigations on public housing, problem-solving courts and recovery from drug addiction. Rudy covers&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northampton CountyPublished: Feb. 14, 2026, 8:57 p.m.Authorities were investigating a fatal, two-vehicle crash involving a tractor-trailer Friday, Feb.&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-114341","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\/114341","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=114341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114341\/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=114341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}