{"id":242356,"date":"2026-07-13T16:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242356\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:41:09","slug":"coroner-man-dead-after-scooter-crash-in-allentown-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242356\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner: Man dead after scooter crash in Allentown | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A man is dead after his scooter and another vehicle collided over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Ottis G. Petro, 35, of Allentown, was pronounced dead on Saturday at 6:31 p.m. at a local hospital, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio said in a news release.<\/p>\n

Buglio said the cause of death is blunt force injuries due to the crash, and the manner of death was ruled an accident.<\/p>\n

The incident happened on Saturday<\/a> around 5:20 p.m. at the intersection of North 7th Street and West Liberty Street in Allentown, according to Buglio.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Lehigh County Coroner’s Office & Forensic Center, the Allentown Police Department and the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office are conducting the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A man is dead after his scooter and another vehicle collided over the weekend. Ottis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,103862,1024,103861,103860],"class_list":["post-242356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-blunt-force-injuries","tag-lehigh-county-coroner","tag-ottis-g-petro","tag-scooter-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242356","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=242356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}