{"id":138685,"date":"2026-03-15T03:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138685\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T03:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:17:12","slug":"coroner-identifies-man-18-who-died-in-crash-on-i-78-in-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138685\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies man, 18, who died in crash on I-78 in Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have identified the 18-year-old who died Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/03\/12\/18-year-old-killed-in-i-78-crash-in-lehigh-county\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 78 in Lehigh County.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tealson Herrlin of Upper Milford Township was driving the vehicle that crash along the interstate about 5:10 a.m. Thursday, Coroner Daniel Buglio said. He was traveling westbound when he hit a traffic sign, sending his vehicle into a ditch off the right side of the road, state police said.<\/p>\n<p>East Penn School District confirmed Herrlin was a student at Emmaus High School.<\/p>\n<p>Herrlin was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, where he died from his injuries about an hour later. An autopsy confirmed his cause of death was multiple blunt-force trauma, with the manner accidental, according to Buglio.<\/p>\n<p>State police are investigating the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have identified the 18-year-old who died Thursday after a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 78 in Lehigh County.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,2376,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-138685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138685","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=138685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}