{"id":222917,"date":"2026-06-19T04:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222917\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:47:10","slug":"police-woman-81-dies-after-becoming-trapped-under-car-in-easton-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222917\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Woman, 81, dies after becoming trapped under car in Easton | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

EASTON, Pa. – An 81-year-old woman is dead after being trapped under a car in Easton.<\/p>\n

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

“When I woke up this morning to take my dog out I actually saw the fire truck zoom down the street, and I saw three cop cars zoom down the street,” said Jae Wolfe, who lives in the neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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

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

The woman was injured after becoming trapped under a car while helping a family member who was working on it, city police said.<\/p>\n

Police say when firefighters and rescue workers arrived on scene, they freed her from underneath the car.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Neighbors we spoke with are devastated about what happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I truly feel so bad, and this is usually a really calm block,” Wolfe said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Easton Police Department, Northampton County Coroner\u2019s Office, and the Northampton County DA\u2019s Office are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. – An 81-year-old woman is dead after being trapped under a car in Easton. Officers responded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222918,"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-222917","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\/222917","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=222917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}