{"id":136515,"date":"2026-03-12T16:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136515\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T16:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:01:09","slug":"teen-dead-after-crash-on-i-78-in-lehigh-county-police-say-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136515\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen dead after crash on I-78 in Lehigh County, police say \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager died after his vehicle struck a traffic sign and landed in a ditch in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, police said. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Pennsylvania State Police, on Thursday, March 12, 2026, at around 5:13 am, troopers from the Fogelsville Station were called to I-78 Westbound, Mile Marker 54.1, in Lower Macungie Township, Lehigh County, after receiving a report of a vehicle in a ditch.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, police said troopers learned that an 18-year-old from Upper Milford Township was driving a 2005 grey Ford Mustang westbound when it struck a traffic sign and came to rest in a ditch on the right side of the highway.<\/p>\n<p>Medics transported the teen, who has not been identified, from the scene to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the crash or who saw the vehicle beforehand is asked to contact the Pennsylvania State Police Fogelsville Station at (610) 395-1438 and reference Incident Number PA2026-311164.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager died after his vehicle struck a traffic sign and landed in a ditch in Lehigh County,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433,28],"class_list":["post-136515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136515","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=136515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}