{"id":259071,"date":"2026-08-04T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259071\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T17:36:08","slug":"jose-cardona-26-of-south-whitehall-dies-after-allentown-motorcycle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259071\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Cardona, 26, of South Whitehall dies after Allentown motorcycle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 A 26-year-old South Whitehall Township man died Aug. 3 from injuries he sustained in a motorcycle crash in Allentown three days earlier, according to the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jose A. Cardona was pronounced dead at 1:40 p.m. at Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Muhlenberg, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head, and the manner of death was ruled an accident, Buglio said. Cardona was operating a motorcycle that lost control and crashed, causing him to strike his head on the ground. He was wearing a helmet at the time, Buglio said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crash occurred at approximately 8:20 p.m. July 31 in the area of North Bradford Street and East Allen Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the days between the crash and his death, Cardona was in an intensive care unit in critical condition, according to public Facebook posts written at the time by family friends.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed on Lehigh Valley community<\/p>\n<p class=\"nl-inline-sub\">Get the latest community news and updates from across the Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nl-inline-privacy\">By subscribing, you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighdaily.com\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and consent to receive updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those posts asked the community to pray for his recovery and for the doctors and nurses treating him. They described Cardona as a father whose children were waiting on him, and asked for support for his mother, his girlfriend and the rest of his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Allentown Police Department is investigating the crash, along with the coroner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 A 26-year-old South Whitehall Township man died Aug. 3 from injuries he sustained in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-259071","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\/259071","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=259071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}