{"id":210001,"date":"2026-06-03T23:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210001\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T23:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:40:08","slug":"coroner-man-dies-after-falling-from-moving-vehicle-in-northampton-county-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210001\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner: Man dies after falling from moving vehicle in Northampton County | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212; The Northampton County Coroner&#8217;s Office has released the identity of a man who died after falling off the trunk of a vehicle he was riding on at a shopping center in Bethlehem Township.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Daniel J. Maffea, 20, of Bethlehem Township, was riding on the closed trunk area of a moving vehicle which was traveling across Madison Blvd., between 4797 and 4753 Freemansburg Ave. when he was thrown from the vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened on Madison Farms Shopping Center along Freemansburg Avenue in Bethlehem Township on Friday, May 22, according to the Northampton County coroner.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Daniel J. Maffea, 20, of Bethlehem Township, was riding on the closed trunk area of a moving vehicle which was traveling across Madison Blvd., between 4797 and 4753 Freemansburg Ave. when he was thrown from the vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maffea was transported to St. Luke\u2019s Hospital, Anderson Campus where he was pronounced dead on May 29 due to his injuries, the coroner said.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of death was determined to be Blunt Force Head Trauma, and the manner of death was ruled Accidental, according to the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212; The Northampton County Coroner&#8217;s Office has released the identity of a man who died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":["post-210001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210001","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=210001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}