{"id":197929,"date":"2026-05-20T15:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197929\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:43:09","slug":"bethlehem-19-year-old-dies-days-after-motor-scooter-crash-in-allentown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197929\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem 19-Year-Old Dies Days After Motor Scooter Crash In Allentown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Martinez was pronounced dead at Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Cedar Crest at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19, according to the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>His death was caused by complications of blunt force injuries suffered in the crash, and the manner of death was ruled an accident, the coroner said.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez had been operating a motor scooter when he lost control, struck a curb, and collided with fixed objects in the 800 block of South Filmore Street at approximately 12:42 a.m. on Sunday, May 10, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The Allentown Police Department and the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office &amp; Forensic Center are investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Details about Martinez\u2019s life were not immediately available. His loved ones are invited to share information with Daily Voice by emailing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyvoice.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"7a100a131115081b3a1e1b1316030c1513191f54191517\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e-click-here-follow-btn\" data-testid=\"bottom-paragraph\">\n            <a class=\"e-email-signup\" js-follow-button=\"\" data-testid=\"article-click-here-to-subscribe\">Click here<\/a><br \/>\n            to follow Daily Voice<\/p>\n<p>              Allentown<\/p>\n<p>            and receive free news updates.\n          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Martinez was pronounced dead at Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Cedar Crest at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-197929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197929","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=197929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}