{"id":222512,"date":"2026-06-18T18:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222512\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:51:12","slug":"woman-81-dies-after-accident-in-easton-was-helping-family-member-who-was-working-on-vehicle-police-say-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222512\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 81, dies after accident in Easton; was helping family member who was working on vehicle, police say | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EASTON, Pa. &#8211; An 81-year-old woman is dead after an accident in Easton.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the 100 block of Young Street around 10:17 a.m., according to a news release from the Easton Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Crews found the woman, who was suffering from serious injuries, police said. She was taken to an area hospital where she died from the injuries, according to city police.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"An 81-year-old woman is dead after an accident in Easton 6-18-26\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a342f7ef1ba8.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>At this time, it appears that the woman was injured while helping a family member who was working on a vehicle that was parked in the area, city police said.<\/p>\n<p>The Easton Police Department, Northampton County Coroner\u2019s Office, and the Northampton County DA\u2019s Office are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is still ongoing. Anybody with information can call city detectives at 610-250-6656.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. &#8211; An 81-year-old woman is dead after an accident in Easton. Officers responded to the 100&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1874,153,155,154,111,2181,74242,434,206],"class_list":["post-222512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-accident","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-death","tag-easton","tag-elderly-woman","tag-northampton-county","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222512","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=222512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}