{"id":259760,"date":"2026-08-05T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259760\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:46:10","slug":"81-year-old-man-dies-from-injuries-after-being-hit-by-vehicle-in-allentown-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259760\/","title":{"rendered":"81-year-old man dies from injuries after being hit by vehicle in Allentown | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; An elderly man died after being hit by a vehicle in Allentown Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Ai D. Dinh, 81, of\u00a0Allentown, was pronounced dead Tuesday shortly after 8 p.m. at a local hospital, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Buglio said the accident happened around 4:20 p.m. at West Hamilton and South 22nd streets.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of death is multiple blunt force injuries, and the manner of death was ruled an accident,\u00a0Buglio said.<\/p>\n<p>Allentown police say the driver of the vehicle remained on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Buglio said the coroner&#8217;s office, the Allentown Police Department, and the Lehigh County District Attorney&#8217;s Office are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; An elderly man died after being hit by a vehicle in Allentown Tuesday evening. Ai&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,73945,6111,1021,42094,206,110048,1017],"class_list":["post-259760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-elderly-man","tag-hospital","tag-investigation","tag-pedestrian-accident","tag-police","tag-serious-injuries","tag-traffic-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259760","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=259760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}