{"id":183504,"date":"2026-05-04T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183504\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:50:08","slug":"man-hit-by-vehicle-on-route-873-in-lehigh-county-dies-from-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183504\/","title":{"rendered":"Man hit by vehicle on Route 873 in Lehigh County dies from injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 48-year-old man died Sunday, nearly two weeks after he was hit by a vehicle in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Erickson was hit by a vehicle about 4:45 p.m. April 20 in the 5800 block of Route 873 in Washington Township, according to a news release from the Lehigh County coroner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Erickson, of Washington Township, was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest. He died from his injuries about 3:40 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday. State police are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 48-year-old man died Sunday, nearly two weeks after he was hit by a vehicle in Lehigh County.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,433,182,139,28,432,13364],"class_list":["post-183504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-washington-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183504","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=183504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}