UPDATE: Northampton County Coroner Zach Lysek says the cause of death is smoke inhalation from the fire. The investigation is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa. – A fatal crash shut down a road in Bethlehem Township, Northampton County for hours Friday morning.<\/p>\n
Around 4 a.m., a vehicle headed west on Freemansburg Avenue went off the road, rolled, hit a tree and caught fire, said township police Chief Dan Pancoast.<\/p>\n
It happened near the intersection with Farmersville Road.<\/p>\n
The driver was killed, and the county coroner was called to the scene, police said.<\/p>\n
Investigators are working to figure out what caused the crash. Police are asking any person or business who may have video of\u00a0Freemansburg Avenue from Wilson Borough to Farmersville Road from 3:30 a.m. to 4 a.m. to contact Investigator Fox at 610.419.9646 or email efox@bethlehemtwp.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Freemansburg Ave. was closed for several hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Northampton County Coroner Zach Lysek says the cause of death is smoke inhalation from the fire. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,805],"class_list":["post-222740","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-lehighvalley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222740","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=222740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}