{"id":232713,"date":"2026-07-01T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232713\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:04:10","slug":"motorcyclist-killed-in-crash-on-pa-turnpike-i-476-in-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232713\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist killed in crash on Pa. Turnpike I-476 in Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 39-year-old motorcyclist died after a crash Tuesday on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/06\/30\/pa-turnpike-interstate-476-closed-crash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension in Lehigh County.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The man was riding his motorcycle in the northbound lane about 4:25 p.m. near mile marker 63 in North Whitehall Township when it was involved in a collision with a tractor-trailer, Coroner Daniel A. Buglio said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist was seriously injured and taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later.<\/p>\n<p>Buglio said he is withholding identification to allow the man\u2019s family time to grieve.<\/p>\n<p>State police are investigating the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 39-year-old motorcyclist died after a crash Tuesday on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension in Lehigh County. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-232713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-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\/232713","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=232713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}