{"id":242361,"date":"2026-07-13T16:46:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242361\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:46:01","slug":"coroner-ids-scooter-rider-pedestrian-killed-in-lehigh-valley-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242361\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner IDs scooter rider, pedestrian killed in Lehigh Valley crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lehigh County coroner on Monday identified two people who died after crashes last week.<\/p>\n

Christopher A. Pryer, 31, died Saturday at Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Muhlenberg from blunt force trauma after being hit by a vehicle in the 2400 block of Linden Street<\/a>, Bethlehem, shortly after 4 a.m. Thursday, Coroner Daniel A. Buglio said. His death was ruled an accident.<\/p>\n

Police on Friday said they are trying to determine the circumstances of that incident, and believe Pryer may have already been lying in the road when the vehicle hit him.<\/p>\n

Ottis G. Petro, 35, of Allentown was pronounced dead at 6:31 p.m. Saturday at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest. Police say Petro was riding a scooter that was involved in a collision with a vehicle<\/a> around 5:20 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of North Seventh and West Liberty streets in Allentown.<\/p>\n

Pertro died from blunt force trauma and his death was ruled an accident, Buglio said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Both deaths remain under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lehigh County coroner on Monday identified two people who died after crashes last week. Christopher A. Pryer,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,153,1994,202,433,182,139,434,28,432],"class_list":["post-242361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-township","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242361","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=242361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}