Published August 19. 2026 11:16AM<\/p>\n
Hailey E. Weil, 21, of Bath Borough, was pronounced dead after a three-vehicle crash that occurred Aug. 17.<\/p>\n
While on a routine patrol around 11:39 a.m. Aug. 17, a trooper came upon a motor vehicle crash at the intersection of Airport Road and Race Street, Hanover Township, Lehigh County, according to Pennsylvania State Police-Troop M, Bethlehem.<\/p>\n
It was determined a 2004 Subaru Forester, operated by Weil; a 2021 Freightliner Cascadia truck, operated by a 42-year-old male from Nazareth; and a 2025 Ford Explorer, operated by a 63-year-old male from Pottsville, crashed at the intersection of Airport Road and Race Street.<\/p>\n
A crash-detection alert on Weil\u2019s iPhone reported the collision occurred approximately 11:35 a.m., the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office and Forensic Center reported. Weil was transported from the scene to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg.<\/p>\n
According to the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office and Forensic Center, she was pronounced dead around 12:53 p.m. Aug. 17 in the emergency department at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg. The cause of death is multiple traumatic injuries, and the manner of death is accident.<\/p>\n
A GoFundMe has been set up for her family. To donate, go to gofundme.com\/f\/honoring-haileys-memory-with-love-and-support.<\/p>\n
During the crash investigation, all traffic was detoured at Airport Road and Grove Road and Airport and Schoenersville roads, PSP reported. The scene was cleared by 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
This crash remains under investigation by the PSP Bethlehem Patrol Unit, Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office and Forensic Center and Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office. Assisting with this investigation are Troop M Collision Analysis Reconstruction Specialist Unit, Troop M Forensic Services Unit, Troop M Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program, Catasauqua Fire Department, Northampton Borough Fire Department, Han-Le-Co Fire Company, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Lehigh Valley International Airport Police and Northampton Regional EMS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published August 19. 2026 11:16AM Hailey E. Weil, 21, of Bath Borough, was pronounced dead after a three-vehicle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-268230","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\/268230","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=268230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}