LEHIGH CO., (WOLF) \u2014 A Schuylkill County man was killed Friday afternoon in a crash involving a tanker truck and tractor-trailer in Lehigh County, according to the Lehigh County Coroner’s Office.<\/p>\n
The crash happened in the area of Route 309 and Gun Club Road in Lynn Township.<\/p>\n
The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office said it was called to the scene at approximately 3:35 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n
According to Coroner Daniel A. Buglio, the 52-year-old victim was from Tamaqua and was driving the tanker truck involved in the crash.<\/p>\n
He was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:10 p.m.<\/p>\n
Authorities said no other fatalities were reported.<\/p>\n
The victim’s identity has not yet been released.<\/p>\n
An autopsy is scheduled for Monday, Aug. 10, at the Lehigh County Coroner’s Office and Forensic Center to help determine the cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n
Additional details about what led to the crash were not immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH CO., (WOLF) \u2014 A Schuylkill County man was killed Friday afternoon in a crash involving a tanker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-262394","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\/262394","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=262394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}