{"id":284694,"date":"2026-09-12T20:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284694\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T20:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:28:07","slug":"motorcycle-driver-motor-scooter-rider-dead-in-separate-lehigh-county-pennsylvania-crashes-da-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284694\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle driver, motor scooter rider dead in separate Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, crashes, DA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people are dead and two others are in custody after separate crashes Friday night in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, the district attorney said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Local police and the DA&#8217;s office are investigating both incidents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Salisbury Township motorcycle crash<\/p>\n<p>A 39-year-old man from Fountain Hill was riding a motorcycle westbound on the 1100 block of East Susquehanna Street in Salisbury Township, Pennsylvania, on Friday when he was hit and killed by an SUV, according to a news release from Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan.<\/p>\n<p>The driver in the SUV was headed east on East Susquehanna Street, then crossed into the opposite lane to pass another car before crashing into the motorcycle driver head-on just after 9 p.m., Holihan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim was wearing a helmet. The SUV driver was taken into custody, and criminal charges are pending.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Allentown motor scooter crash<\/p>\n<p>Police in Allentown are investigating an unrelated crash that killed a woman riding a motor scooter Friday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Around 11:35 p.m., the 42-year-old woman and two other people were riding motor scooters on the 1600 block of South 4th Street when an SUV struck the victim&#8217;s scooter from behind, Holihan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the SUV, whom Holihan identified as Eliezer Julius Santiago, 22, of Allentown, tried to flee the scene but was taken into custody when he nearly struck a police vehicle headed to the scene of the crash, according to Holihan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told police Santiago was driving erratically before the crash, and cameras in the area captured the incident, Holihan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Santiago is in jail and is facing charges including aggravated assault by vehicle while driving under the influence, driving without a license, reckless driving and related counts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because the victim died after the initial charges were filed, Holihan said his office will file additional charges soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are dead and two others are in custody after separate crashes Friday night in Lehigh County,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[119,1540,433,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-284694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-allentown","tag-car-crash","tag-lehigh-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284694","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=284694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}