{"id":273396,"date":"2026-08-27T18:53:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273396\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T18:53:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:53:05","slug":"police-seek-help-finding-hit-and-run-driver-who-struck-juvenile-in-macungie-crime-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273396\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek help finding hit-and-run driver who struck juvenile in Macungie | Crime Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

MACUNGIE, Pa. — Police in Lehigh County are asking for the public’s help as they investigate a hit-and-run that left a juvenile injured Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The crash happened around 8:20 p.m. on West Main Street near the railroad tracks, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Officials say a vehicle struck the juvenile, who was riding an e-bike, and fled the scene heading northbound on Route 100.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information or who witnessed the incident is asked to contact the Macungie Police Department at 610-966-2222 or by email at tbernhard@macungiepd.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police are also asking residents with Ring cameras or surveillance systems in the area to check their footage and report any relevant information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MACUNGIE, Pa. — Police in Lehigh County are asking for the public’s help as they investigate a hit-and-run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,31,18184],"class_list":["post-273396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime","tag-western-lehigh-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273396","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=273396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}