{"id":185528,"date":"2026-05-06T18:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185528\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:05:17","slug":"pedestrian-dies-after-washington-twp-crash-times-news-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185528\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies after Washington Twp. crash \u2013 Times News Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published May 04. 2026 10:39PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">A Washington Township man has died as a result of injuries suffered as a pedestrian hit by a vehicle on April 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Lehigh County Coroner said Richard J. Erickson, 48, was pronounced dead on Sunday at 3:39 a.m. at Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Cedar Crest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The coroner said Erickson was a pedestrian who was hit in the 5800 block of Route 873 in Washington Township. The incident happened at 4:45 p.m. April 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">An autopsy will be conducted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">In addition to the coroner\u2019s office, the Pennsylvania State Police\u2013Bethlehem Station and the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office are investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published May 04. 2026 10:39PM A Washington Township man has died as a result of injuries suffered as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-185528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185528","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=185528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}