{"id":119201,"date":"2026-02-20T17:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119201\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:27:08","slug":"lansford-man-27-dead-after-crash-on-route-100-in-lehigh-county-western-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119201\/","title":{"rendered":"Lansford man, 27, dead after crash on Route 100 in Lehigh County | Western Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U. MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. &#8211; A crash in Upper Macungie Township left a 27-year-old man from Lansford dead on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>It happened around 6:15 p.m., just north of Mohr Lane and Beechwood Street near the Lowhill Township line in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a pickup truck traveling south on Route 100 crossed lanes and crashed into a northbound Honda Civic.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers of both vehicles were taken to local hospitals, and one of them died.<\/p>\n<p>That part of Route 100 was closed for accident reconstruction and investigation until 11:15 p.m., when it reopened.<\/p>\n<p>The Upper Macungie Township Police Department is investigating the incident. Township police say anyone who may have witnessed the collision is asked to call the police at 484-661-5911.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Route 100 crash 2-19-26\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6997ca519a25b.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Jayson Wagner | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U. MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. &#8211; A crash in Upper Macungie Township left a 27-year-old man from Lansford dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433,5348,56525,3628,6654,56524,16036,4129],"class_list":["post-119201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-lowhill-township","tag-motor-vehicle-accident","tag-police-investigation","tag-road-closure","tag-route-100","tag-traffic-diversion","tag-upper-macungie-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119201","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=119201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}