{"id":289011,"date":"2026-09-18T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289011\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:00:10","slug":"bangor-man-dies-after-motorcycle-charter-bus-crash-in-bethlehem-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289011\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangor man dies after motorcycle, charter bus crash in Bethlehem | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8212; A motorcyclist died after a crash with a bus in Bethlehem on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Velasquez Jr., 28, of Bangor, was riding a motorcycle that crashed with a charter bus around 9:30 p.m. in the 2000 block of Industrial Drive, according to the Lehigh County coroner.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later, the coroner said.<\/p>\n<p>Velasquez was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>His death was ruled an accident, the coroner said.<\/p>\n<p>The Bethlehem Police Department, the Lehigh County District Attorney&#8217;s Office and the county coroner&#8217;s office are investigating the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8212; A motorcyclist died after a crash with a bus in Bethlehem on Thursday night. Samuel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":["post-289011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289011","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=289011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}