NORTH WHITEHALL TWP., LEHIGH CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Luzerne County man died Tuesday afternoon after his motorcycle collided with a tractor-trailer on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n
The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as 39-year-old Kory A. Stokes of Foster Township.<\/p>\n
According to the coroner, Stokes was operating the motorcycle when it was involved in a crash with a tractor-trailer on the northbound Pennsylvania Turnpike near mile marker 63.1 at about 4:25 p.m.<\/p>\n
Stokes was pronounced dead at 5:28 p.m. in the emergency department at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest.<\/p>\n
An autopsy determined he died from multiple traumatic injuries sustained in the collision. The manner of death was ruled accidental.<\/p>\n
Officials said Stokes was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n
The Pennsylvania State Police Pocono Station is investigating the collision in conjunction with the Lehigh County Coroner’s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH WHITEHALL TWP., LEHIGH CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Luzerne County man died Tuesday afternoon after his motorcycle collided with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-232866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232866","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=232866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}