{"id":233884,"date":"2026-07-02T16:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233884\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:34:15","slug":"foster-twp-man-killed-in-lehigh-county-turnpike-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233884\/","title":{"rendered":"Foster Twp. man killed in Lehigh County turnpike crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>NORTH WHITEHALL TWP. \u2014 A man from Luzerne County died from injuries sustained in a two vehicle crash on the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Lehigh County on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio identified the man as 39-year-old Kory A. Stokes of Foster Township.<\/p>\n<p>Stokes died at Lehigh Valley Hospital \u2013 Cedar Crest.<\/p>\n<p>According to news releases from Buglio and the Pennsylvania State Police at Pocono:<\/p>\n<p>Stokes, operating a 2016 Harley Davidson motorcycle, was traveling north on the turnpike when another vehicle traveling in the right lane made a lane change to the left northbound lane of travel.<\/p>\n<p>Stokes was traveling at a speed greater than the posted 70 mph and moved to the right lane of travel when he lost control of the motorcycle and struck the rear wheels of the trailer, state police say.<\/p>\n<p>Stokes was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Stokes, who was wearing a helmet, died from multiple traumatic injuries, Buglio stated.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; NORTH WHITEHALL TWP. \u2014 A man from Luzerne County died from injuries sustained in a two vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-233884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233884","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=233884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}