{"id":187540,"date":"2026-05-08T21:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187540\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T21:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:34:12","slug":"alburtis-man-killed-in-route-222-motorcycle-crash-in-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187540\/","title":{"rendered":"Alburtis man killed in Route 222 motorcycle crash in Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials have identified an Alburtis man who died <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/05\/07\/route-222-fatal-crash-upper-macungie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday afternoon in a motorcycle crash in Lehigh County.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coroner Daniel A. Buglio said Luis Sousa, 39, died after a crash about 1:30 p.m. on Route 222 near Cetronia Road in Upper Macungie Township.<\/p>\n<p>Sousa was riding a motorcycle that veered off the roadway and hit a steel cable barrier, according to a coroner\u2019s office news release. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>His death was caused by blunt-force injuries, with the manner accidental.<\/p>\n<p>Upper Macungie Township police are investigating the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials have identified an Alburtis man who died Thursday afternoon in a motorcycle crash in Lehigh County. Coroner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18296,119,121,120,2376,202,433,182,139,28,432,4129],"class_list":["post-187540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-alburtis","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-upper-macungie-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187540","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=187540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187540\/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=187540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}