Published April 29. 2026 10:00AM<\/p>\n
A 22-year-old motorist, of Coopersburg, suffered fatal injuries in a collision with a tractor trailer truck along Interstate 78 eastbound in Lower Macungie Township April 23, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
Ryan W. Gretz was pronounced dead 12:28 a.m. at the accident scene, according to a press release from the Lehigh County Coroner dated April 24.<\/p>\n
First responders were called to Interstate 78 near mile marker 54.3 at approximately 11:27 p.m., according to a press release from Pennsylvania State Police Fogelsville.<\/p>\n
The cause of death was determined to be blunt force injuries and the manner of death was found to be an accident, according to the coroner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
A passenger of the vehicle, described by state police as a 21-year-old female, of Massachusetts, was taken to a hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
The details of the crash were given as follows:<\/p>\n
A 2010 Ford Mustang driven by the Coopersburg motorist collided with a 2007 Peterbilt tractor trailer, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
Gretz was driving the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Traffic was detoured onto State Route 100.<\/p>\n
I-78 reopened to eastbound traffic 5:45 a.m.<\/p>\n
The truck driver was not injured, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
Among responders were Cetronia Ambulance crews, the Upper and Lower Macungie fire departments, Goodwill Fire Company and Lehigh Valley Paramedics.<\/p>\n
Additional investigating agencies include Pennsylvania State Police Troop M Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Specialist, the Troop M Forensic Services Unit, Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, South Whitehall police and Upper Macungie Township police.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about this crash or video footage is asked to contact state police at 610-395-1438.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published April 29. 2026 10:00AM A 22-year-old motorist, of Coopersburg, suffered fatal injuries in a collision with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-179275","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\/179275","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=179275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}