{"id":146213,"date":"2026-03-23T19:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146213\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:24:08","slug":"coroner-reveals-cause-manner-of-death-in-deadly-7-car-lehigh-county-crash-southern-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146213\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner reveals cause, manner of death in deadly 7-car Lehigh County crash | Southern Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPPER SAUCON TWP., Pa. – The Lehigh County\u00a0County Coroner’s Office revealed the cause and manner of death in a seven-vehicle crash that killed a 62-year-old man.<\/p>\n

The report of the multi\u2011vehicle crash with several injured occupants came in at 10:59 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n

Police say the accident happened along the 3300 block of Center Valley Parkway. When officers arrived, they located five vehicles involved in the crash between West Saucon Valley Circle and Corporate Parkway West.<\/p>\n

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Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n

Brian McKenna, 62, of Bethlehem, PA, was extricated by officers; however, he did not survive, according to a press release from the Upper Saucon Police Department.<\/p>\n

The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office said the cause of death is blunt force injuries, and the manner of death was ruled an accident.<\/p>\n

Investigators determined McKenna was driving a 2020 Tesla westbound on Center Valley Parkway when it crossed the center concrete median and struck multiple eastbound vehicles traveling eastbound. In total, seven vehicles and ten occupants were involved. Police say three people were injured and taken to local hospitals.<\/p>\n

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Jayson Wagner | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n

The Upper Saucon Township Police Department, Lehigh County Crash Team, Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office, and coroner’s office are investigating the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER SAUCON TWP., Pa. – The Lehigh County\u00a0County Coroner’s Office revealed the cause and manner of death in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,66694,1602,2798,40204,26030,1024,206,2795],"class_list":["post-146213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-brian-mckenna","tag-car-accident","tag-center-valley-parkway","tag-developing-story","tag-emergency-response","tag-lehigh-county-coroner","tag-police","tag-upper-saucon-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146213","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=146213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}