{"id":222171,"date":"2026-06-18T11:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222171\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:58:09","slug":"2-men-killed-in-crash-with-motorcycle-e-bike-in-bethlehem-are-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222171\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men killed in crash with motorcycle, e-bike, in Bethlehem are identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials have identified the two men killed l<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/06\/16\/2-killed-1-injured-in-friday-night-crash-between-motorcycles-e-bike-in-bethlehem\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ast week in a crash involving two motorcycles and an electric bike.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Northampton County Coroner Zachary Lysek said Colin Gale, 24 of Quakertown, and Blas Fermin, 46, of Bethlehem, were killed Friday night in the crash in Bethlehem\u2019s South Side. Fermin was riding an electric bike that was hit by Gale, who was riding a motorcycle, Lysek said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened about 7 p.m. at the intersection of Daly Avenue and the Minsi Trail Bridge, city police said.\u00a0 Fermin was riding south in the marked crosswalk when he was hit by Gale\u2019s motorcycle, which was traveling east in the right lane of Daly Avenue, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>The collision caused Gale\u2019s motorcycle to move to the left and hit another motorcycle next to him. Both Gale and the other motorcyclist were thrown from their bikes.<\/p>\n<p>The rider of the second motorcycle, a 25-year-old from Bethlehem, was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Lysek said Fermin and Gale\u2019s deaths were caused by blunt-force trauma, with the manner accidental.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call police at 610-997-7666.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials have identified the two men killed last week in a crash involving two motorcycles and an electric&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-222171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222171","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=222171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}