{"id":260411,"date":"2026-08-06T15:44:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260411\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:44:24","slug":"motorcyclist-who-hit-utility-pole-in-bethlehem-dies-of-his-injuries-coroner-says-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260411\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist who hit utility pole in Bethlehem dies of his injuries, coroner says | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A 25-year-old motorcyclist who crashed into a utility pole in Bethlehem last week has died of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Shane M. Hoffman, of Johnstown, was pronounced dead Wednesday afternoon at a local hospital, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Buglio said Hoffman veered off the roadway and hit a utility pole on Tuesday, July 28 just after 8:30 p.m. at the 900 block of Pembroke Road.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of death is blunt force trauma to the head, and the manner of death was ruled an accident.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, Buglio said.<\/p>\n<p>Buglio said the coroner\u2019s office and the Freemansburg Police Department is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A 25-year-old motorcyclist who crashed into a utility pole in Bethlehem last week has died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,21478,110463,1024,3185,110462,26582],"class_list":["post-260411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-fatal-accident","tag-freemansburg-police-department","tag-lehigh-county-coroner","tag-motorcycle-crash","tag-shane-m-hoffman","tag-utility-pole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260411","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=260411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}