{"id":2893,"date":"2025-10-16T00:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T00:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2893\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T00:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T00:45:17","slug":"police-id-teen-killed-in-crash-in-bethlehem-pa-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2893\/","title":{"rendered":"Police ID teen killed in crash in Bethlehem, Pa. \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A criminal investigation is underway after investigators determined \u201creckless behavior\u201d led to the death of a teen boy<\/a> who crashed into a parked vehicle in Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania, over the weekend.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, June 1, around 1:30 a.m., Bethlehem Township Police responded to a crash on the 3000 block of Chester Road near Freedom High School and East Hills Middle School. Police said a group of teenagers in two vehicles were involved in the crash. During the incident, 17-year-old David Nagy \u2013 who was in one of the vehicles \u2013 struck his head on the other vehicle, which was parked.<\/p>\n

Nagy \u2013 a junior at Freedom High School and a Bethlehem Township resident — was pronounced dead at the scene. The Northampton County Coroner revealed he died from blunt force trauma to the head.<\/p>\n

Bethlehem Township Police Chief Greg Gottschall said the incident is being treated as a criminal investigation and that the five teenagers involved in the crash \u2013 including Nagy \u2013 were engaged in \u201creckless behavior.\u201d He did not reveal anymore details beyond that, however. <\/p>\n

Bethlehem Area School District officials also released a statement on the incident. <\/p>\n

“We encourage the community to respect the privacy of all parties involved as we move through this trying time together,” they wrote. “On behalf of the BASD community, we offer our heartfelt sympathy to the family and to all of those impacted by this tragic incident.” <\/p>\n

No charges have been filed in connection to Nagy\u2019s death. Police continue to investigate. Anyone with additional information on the incident should call the Northampton County 911 Operations Center at 610-759-2200 or Investigator Gretchen Kraemer at 610-814-6473 or email at gkraemer@bethlehemtwp.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A criminal investigation is underway after investigators determined \u201creckless behavior\u201d led to the death of a teen boy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,157,28],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","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=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}