{"id":256596,"date":"2026-07-31T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256596\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:34:08","slug":"25-year-old-man-identified-in-fatal-motorcycle-crash-in-allentown-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256596\/","title":{"rendered":"25-year-old man identified in fatal motorcycle crash in Allentown | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa &#8211; The Lehigh County Coroner has identified a man who died in a motorcycle crash in Allentown on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Elias Alzaghtiti, 25, of Allentown was pronounced dead on Friday at 9:43 a.m. in the Emergency\u00a0Department at Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Muhlenberg, the coroner said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Alzaghtiti was riding a motorcycle that collided with a motor vehicle in the area of Union Boulevard and N. Graham Street at approximately 9:00 a.m..<\/p>\n<p>Alzaghtiti was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the other vehicle was not injured and remained on the scene following the crash, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy will be completed on Monday at the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office &amp; Forensic Center to assist in determining the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh County Coroner Dan Buglio says this is the ninth motorcycle fatality so far in 2026, compared to five motorcycle fatalities in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Coroner\u2019s Office, the Allentown Police Department and the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office are investigating the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa &#8211; The Lehigh County Coroner has identified a man who died in a motorcycle crash in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,805],"class_list":["post-256596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-lehighvalley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256596","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=256596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}