{"id":258500,"date":"2026-08-03T19:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258500\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T19:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:20:07","slug":"bethlehem-pedestrian-dies-days-after-being-hit-by-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258500\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem pedestrian dies days after being hit by vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bethlehem man has died days after he was hit by a vehicle in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Burnet, 58, died early Sunday morning at St. Luke\u2019s University Hospital in Fountain Hill, according to a news release from Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio.<\/p>\n<p>Bunet was hit just after 10:30 p.m. Thursday in the 1800 block of Stefko Boulevard, Buglio said.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy determined Burnet died from complications of blunt force trauma, with the manner of death accidental, according to Buglio.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office, the crash is being investigated by Bethlehem police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bethlehem man has died days after he was hit by a vehicle in the city. Richard Burnet,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1391,202,182,139,434,28,432],"class_list":["post-258500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258500","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=258500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}