{"id":186456,"date":"2026-05-07T19:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186456\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:13:15","slug":"coroner-fatal-accident-involving-motorcycle-causes-route-222-to-shut-down-in-both-directions-in-lehigh-county-western-lehigh-county-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186456\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner: Fatal accident involving motorcycle causes Route 222 to shut down in both directions in Lehigh County | Western Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPPER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. &#8211; Route 222 in Upper Macungie Township is shut down in both directions because of a fatal accident involving a motorcycle, according to the Lehigh County Coroner.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the closure stretches from Mill Creek Road to Route 100 and will remain in place until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. 69 News will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. &#8211; Route 222 in Upper Macungie Township is shut down in both directions because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433,59544,40207,6654,56524,16035,1704,4129],"class_list":["post-186456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-mill-creek-road","tag-police-incident","tag-road-closure","tag-route-100","tag-route-222","tag-traffic","tag-upper-macungie-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186456","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=186456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}