{"id":248526,"date":"2026-07-21T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248526\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:12:09","slug":"18-year-old-dies-in-allentown-scooter-crash-along-trout-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248526\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old dies in Allentown scooter crash along Trout Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Allentown teen died in a scooter crash Monday morning in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Aristizabal, 18, was riding a gas scooter, traveling west from Wabash Street onto South Race Street about 7 a.m. when he apparently tried to cross over Trout Creek, where there had once been a bridge, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio said.<\/p>\n<p>The scooter did not clear the creek embankment, and crashed head-on, the coroner said. Aristizabal was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>His cause of death was multiple blunt-force trauma, with the manner accidental. Allentown police are investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown teen died in a scooter crash Monday morning in the city. Kenneth Aristizabal, 18, was riding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,202,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-248526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248526","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=248526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}