{"id":220792,"date":"2026-06-16T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220792\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:22:08","slug":"bethlehem-police-release-new-details-after-e-bike-and-motorcycle-crash-kills-two-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220792\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Police release new details after e\u2011bike and motorcycle crash kills two | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 Police have released more details about the fatal motorcycle accident that involved an e-bike on Friday.<\/p>\n

According to the Bethlehem Chief of Police, on Friday, June 12th at 7:04 p.m., two motorcycles were traveling east on Daly Ave.<\/p>\n

As they approached the traffic light at the south end of the Minsi Trail Bridge, they observed a green light. A 46-year-old man from Bethlehem was riding an electric bicycle south in the marked cross walk. Police say a 24-year-old man from Quakertown was riding a Kawaski motorcycle in the right lane when he struck the electric bicycle.<\/p>\n

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Rich Rolen || WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n

The Chief says this collision caused his motorcycle to move to the left and strike a 25-year-old man from Bethlehem riding a CF Moto motorcycle. Both motorcycles lost control and ejected the riders.<\/p>\n

The rider of the Kawaski and the rider of the electric bicycle died as a result of injuries sustained in the crash, according to Bethlehem Police. The CF Moto rider was transported to St. Luke’s Hospital for treatment and is still there as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n

This crash remains under investigation & anyone who witnessed the crash or can provide video is urged to call Ofc. Brailo at 610-997-7666.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 Police have released more details about the fatal motorcycle accident that involved an e-bike on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,30846,6977,3837,1021,3187,206,1017],"class_list":["post-220792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-e-bike","tag-fatal-crash","tag-injury","tag-investigation","tag-motorcycle","tag-police","tag-traffic-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220792","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=220792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}