{"id":183567,"date":"2026-05-04T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183567\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:15:09","slug":"pedestrian-dies-from-injuries-after-vehicle-hits-him-in-washington-twp-northern-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183567\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies from injuries after vehicle hits him in Washington Twp. | Northern Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON TWP., Pa. &#8211; The Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office said a pedestrian who was hit by a vehicle on April 20 died from his injuries over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Richard J. Erickson, 48, of Washington Township, was pronounced dead Sunday morning, the coroner\u2019s office said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s office said an autopsy will be conducted on Erickson Tuesday to help determine his cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle hit Erickson on Monday, April 20 around 4:45 p.m. at the 5800 block of Route 873 in Washington Township, according to the coroner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON TWP., Pa. &#8211; The Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office said a pedestrian who was hit by a vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,19415,111,433,1020,1017,13364],"class_list":["post-183567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-autopsy","tag-death","tag-lehigh-county","tag-pedestrian","tag-traffic-accident","tag-washington-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183567","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=183567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}