{"id":286275,"date":"2026-09-15T05:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T05:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286275\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T05:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T05:26:12","slug":"motorcyclist-who-died-after-being-hit-by-suv-in-salisbury-twp-identified-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286275\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist who died after being hit by SUV in Salisbury Twp. identified | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALISBURY TWP., Pa. &#8211; A motorcyclist who was killed after being hit by a car in Salisbury Township has been identified.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio identified the victim as 39-year-old Adam M. Reed of Fountain Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Buglio said\u00a0Reed was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of death is\u00a0multiple blunt force trauma, and the manner of death is accident,\u00a0Buglio said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened on the 1100 block of East Susquehanna Street around 9 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation found an SUV driving east was tailgating another vehicle before it crossed the double yellow line to pass it, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the SUV ended up hitting the motorcyclist head on.<\/p>\n<p>Reed\u00a0was rushed to the hospital and later died.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the driver of the SUV was also injured. Criminal charges are pending against the driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALISBURY TWP., Pa. &#8211; A motorcyclist who was killed after being hit by a car in Salisbury Township&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,7585,2183],"class_list":["post-286275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-fountain-hill","tag-salisbury-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286275","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=286275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}