{"id":214736,"date":"2026-06-09T17:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214736\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:06:11","slug":"72-year-old-man-hit-by-vehicle-in-allentown-in-march-dies-from-injuries-coroner-says-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214736\/","title":{"rendered":"72-year-old man hit by vehicle in Allentown in March dies from injuries, coroner says | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio said a 72-year-old man who was hit by a vehicle earlier this year has died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>John J. Mongilutz, of Allentown, was pronounced dead early Tuesday morning at a local hospital, Buglio said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Buglio said the cause of death is complications of multiple blunt force injuries due to the collision. He ruled the manner of death an accident.<\/p>\n<p>According to Buglio, Mongilutz was hit by a vehicle on March 18 around 11 p.m. in the area of South 6th Street and Chester Street in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>The Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office, the Allentown Police Department Traffic Unit, and the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office investigated the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio said a 72-year-old man who was hit by a vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,94081,433,60208,57991],"class_list":["post-214736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-john-j-mongilutz","tag-lehigh-county","tag-traffic-fatality","tag-vehicle-collision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214736","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=214736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}