{"id":259265,"date":"2026-08-04T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259265\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:38:08","slug":"south-whitehall-man-dies-days-after-motorcycle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259265\/","title":{"rendered":"South Whitehall man dies days after motorcycle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South Whitehall Township man died Monday of injuries he sustained in a motorcycle crash several days earlier in Allentown, the Lehigh County coroner\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Jose A. Cardona, 26, was pronounced dead at 1:40 p.m. at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg. His cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head, and the manner of death is accidental, Coroner Daniel A. Buglio said.<\/p>\n<p>Cardona was riding a motorcycle that lost control and crashed around 8:20 p.m. Friday near North Bradford and East Allen streets. Cardona, who was wearing a helmet, hit his head on the ground in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The Lehigh County coroner\u2019s office and Allentown Police Department are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Whitehall Township man died Monday of injuries he sustained in a motorcycle crash several days earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,433,182,139,28,664,432],"class_list":["post-259265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-south-whitehall-township","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259265","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=259265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}