ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio said a man is dead after a gas scooter accident near Trout Creek in Allentown.<\/p>\n
Kenneth Aristizabal, 18, of Allentown, was pronounced dead on Monday at 7:11 a.m. at the scene near the 320 block of West Brookdale Street, Buglio said in a news release.<\/p>\n
Reportedly, Aristizabal was traveling south on a gas scooter from Wabash Street onto South Race Street in an apparent attempt to cross over Trout Creek at the location where a bridge previously existed, Buglio said.<\/p>\n
Buglio said the scooter failed to clear the creek embankment and crashed head-on, resulting in fatal injuries.<\/p>\n
According to Buglio, the cause of death is multiple blunt force trauma, and the manner of death is accident.<\/p>\n
Aristizabal was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, Buglio said.<\/p>\n
In addition to the Lehigh County Coroner’s Office & Forensic Center, the Allentown Police Department is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio said a man is dead after a gas scooter accident…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,6977,106304,1024,106305],"class_list":["post-248527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-fatal-crash","tag-gas-scooter","tag-lehigh-county-coroner","tag-trout-creek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248527","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=248527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}