Published July 23. 2026 02:52PM<\/p>\n
The Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s office said a Slatington woman has died of injuries sustained in a crash Wednesday afternoon in Allentown.<\/p>\n
Kandi Jo Heller, 44, was pronounced dead on Wednesday at 9:58 p.m. at Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Muhlenberg.<\/p>\n
Heller was the driver of a motor vehicle involved in a collision with another motor vehicle. An autopsy was completed today at the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office & Forensic Center. The cause of death is blunt force injuries, and the manner of death is accident.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred on Wednesday at 1:05 p.m. at the intersection of North 6th Street and Cedar Street in Allentown, Lehigh County.<\/p>\n
In addition to the coroner\u2019s office, the Pennsylvania State Police Bethlehem Station Patrol Unit and Criminal Investigation Unit, and the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office are investigating.<\/p>\n
Troopers from the Bethlehem Station were dispatched to the scene and it was determined a 2015 Chevrolet Suburban, operated by Kevin Abdiel Santiago, 24, of Allentown was driving at a high rate of speed, went through a stop sign and struck a Mercedes Benz in the intersection, causing the Mercedes Benz to strike a home located near the intersection of the crash.<\/p>\n
After striking the Mercedes Benz, the operator of the Chevrolet Suburban fled from the scene and was later apprehended and taken into custody by troopers.<\/p>\n
Heller and a passenger were transported to a local hospital for their injuries.<\/p>\n
Santiago is charged with one count of burglary, 15 counts of being prohibited from having a firearm and 15 counts of receiving stolen property, all felonies.<\/p>\n
This investigation is currently ongoing by the Bethlehem Station Criminal Investigation Unit and Bethlehem Patrol Unit. Assisting with this investigation: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office, Allentown Police Department, Allentown Fire Department, Troop M Forensic Services Unit, Troop M Collision Analysis Reconstruction Specialist Unit (C.A.R.S.), PSP Aviation and United Gas Improvement..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published July 23. 2026 02:52PM The Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s office said a Slatington woman has died of injuries…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-250525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250525","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=250525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}