{"id":258381,"date":"2026-08-03T16:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258381\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:22:09","slug":"bethlehem-man-dies-days-after-being-hit-by-vehicle-coroner-says-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258381\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem man dies days after being hit by vehicle, coroner says | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A Bethlehem man died Sunday, days after being hit by a vehicle in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Burne, 58, was pronounced dead early Sunday at a local hospital, the Lehigh County Coroner&#8217;s Office said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s office said the cause of death is complications of blunt force trauma, and the manner of death is accident.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle hit Burne shortly after 10:30 p.m. Thursday at the 1800 block of Stefko Boulevard, the coroner\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Lehigh County Coroner&#8217;s Office, the City of Bethlehem Police Department is also investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A Bethlehem man died Sunday, days after being hit by a vehicle in the city.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,40245,433,109689,3815,26565],"class_list":["post-258381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-blunt-force-trauma","tag-lehigh-county","tag-richard-burne","tag-stefko-boulevard","tag-vehicle-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258381","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=258381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258381\/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=258381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}