{"id":197870,"date":"2026-05-20T14:28:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197870\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:28:40","slug":"bethlehem-man-dead-after-scooter-crash-in-allentown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197870\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem man dead after scooter crash in Allentown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bethlehem man has died days after he was injured in a scooter crash in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Martinez, 19, was riding a motor scooter early Sunday when he lost control, hit a curb and collided into multiple objects, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio said in a news release Wednesday. Martinez was riding the scooter about 12:45 a.m. in the 800 block of South Filmore Street, the coroner said.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez died 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest. His cause of death was complications of blunt-force injuries, with the manner accidental, Buglio said.<\/p>\n<p>Allentown police are investigating the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bethlehem man has died days after he was injured in a scooter crash in Allentown. Jimmy Martinez,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,202,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-197870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197870","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=197870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}