A 71-year-old man died Tuesday after crashing into a tree in Bethlehem, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
The man was traveling eastbound on Easton Road about 8:20 p.m. when his vehicle left the road, traveled along an embankment near a cemetery, reentered the road and hit a tree, according to city police Capt. William Audelo.<\/p>\n
Arriving officers found the vehicle with extensive damage to the front. The man was unresponsive in the vehicle, the captain said.<\/p>\n
A Bethlehem police officer and an off-duty firefighter who was at the scene pulled the man from the vehicle and began life-saving efforts, according to police. They were not able to save him, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, Audelo said.<\/p>\n
The circumstances that led to the vehicle crashing into the tree are under investigation. Investigators are determining whether a medical emergency, mechanical failure or other factors played a role in the crash, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 71-year-old man died Tuesday after crashing into a tree in Bethlehem, according to authorities. The man was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-306476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306476","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=306476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}