{"id":289025,"date":"2026-09-18T16:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289025\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T16:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:24:15","slug":"bangor-man-dies-in-bethlehem-motorcycle-crash-with-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289025\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangor man dies in Bethlehem motorcycle crash with bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Northampton County man died after his motorcycle was involved in a crash with a bus Thursday night in Bethlehem, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Velasquez Jr., 28, of Bangor, was pronounced dead about 10:15 p.m. at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened about 9:35 p.m. in the 200 block of Industrial Drive in Bethlehem, according to the coroner. The death was caused by blunt-force trauma, with the manner accidental.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem police are investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Northampton County man died after his motorcycle was involved in a crash with a bus Thursday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[16775,153,155,154,1391,202,44821,182,139,434,28,44822,432],"class_list":["post-289025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bangor","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-east-bangor","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-roseto","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289025","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=289025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}