{"id":269616,"date":"2026-08-21T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269616\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:50:10","slug":"motorcyclist-dies-after-allentown-crash-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269616\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist dies after Allentown crash \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published August 21. 2026 09:01AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">A 26-year-old South Whitehall Township man has died from injuries suffered in a motorcycle crash in Allentown, according to the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Jose A. Cardona was pronounced dead at 1:40 p.m. Aug. 3 at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg. The cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head, and the death was ruled an accident, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Authorities said Cardona was operating a motorcycle that lost control and crashed, causing him to strike his head on the ground. He was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The crash occurred about 8:20 p.m. July 31 near North Bradford and East Allen streets in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The incident remains under investigation by the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office and the Allentown Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published August 21. 2026 09:01AM A 26-year-old South Whitehall Township man has died from injuries suffered in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-269616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269616","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=269616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269616\/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=269616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}