{"id":250446,"date":"2026-07-23T17:45:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250446\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:45:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:45:51","slug":"slatington-woman-dies-in-allentown-crash-that-sent-car-into-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250446\/","title":{"rendered":"Slatington woman dies in Allentown crash that sent car into home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Slatington woman has died after a violent crash <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/07\/22\/man-charged-after-crash-sends-car-into-allentown-home-leaves-several-people-injured\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday afternoon that sent a car into a house in Allentown, according to authorities.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kandi Jo Heller, 44, died after a crash that happened about 1 p.m. at the intersection of North Sixth and Cedar streets, Coroner Daniel A. Buglio said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Heller was driving a one of the vehicles in the crash, the coroner said. She was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg, where she died from her injuries just before 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>She died from blunt-force injuries, with the manner accidental, Buglio said.<\/p>\n<p>State police, who are investigating the crash, said an SUV driven by a 24-year-old man from Allentown drove through a stop sign and hit Heller\u2019s vehicle. He then fled on foot, but was later arrested by troopers, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, who police identified as Kevin Abdiel Santiago, is charged with burglary and 15 counts each of receiving stolen property and prohibited possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Another occupant of the Heller\u2019s vehicle was also hospitalized, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Slatington woman has died after a violent crash Wednesday afternoon that sent a car into a house&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-250446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-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\/250446","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=250446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}