A 51-year-old man was charged Wednesday in connection with a 2025 deadly hit-and-run in Whitehall Township, according to Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors announced that Harrison Odere was charged with vehicular homicide, hit-and-run causing death or serious bodily injury and other charges in connection with the crash that killed a 39-year-old bicyclist named Nickolas Andrew Siegfried.<\/p>\n
Around 1:15 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2025, Whitehall Police were called to a crash involving a car and a bicycle at the intersection of Macarthur Road and Sutler Drive, and found Siegfried nearby.<\/p>\n
According to officials, the bicyclist suffered multiple blunt force trauma and his death was ruled accidental by the Lehigh County Coroner.<\/p>\n
Investigation later revealed that Siegfried had been crossing Macarthur Road on his bicycle when he was struck by an SUV, driven by Odere.<\/p>\n
Witnesses identified the car and said it left the scene of the crash.<\/p>\n
A police officer who responded to the crash saw an SUV matching the description of the one involved about half a mile away. The SUV had a smashed windshield, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
Investigators determined that Odere failed to stop at a steady red light and did not try to break or slow down before or after the crash.<\/p>\n
Odere was arraigned on July 1 and is free on a $50,000 unsecured bail. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on July 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 51-year-old man was charged Wednesday in connection with a 2025 deadly hit-and-run in Whitehall Township, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433],"class_list":["post-235491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235491","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=235491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}