{"id":306554,"date":"2026-10-14T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306554\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:30:09","slug":"71-year-old-man-dead-after-vehicle-hits-tree-in-bethlehem-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306554\/","title":{"rendered":"71-year-old man dead after vehicle hits tree in Bethlehem | Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A 71-year-old man is dead after his car hit a tree in Bethlehem Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the area of Easton Road and Church Lane at about 8:20 p.m. for a report of a single-vehicle crash involving an unconscious driver, Bethlehem Police Capt. William Audelo said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said crews found the man unresponsive inside the vehicle. The man was pronounced dead after crews removed him from the vehicle and attempted lifesaving efforts, city police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The preliminary investigation indicates the vehicle was traveling eastbound on Easton Road when it left the roadway, traveled along an embankment near a cemetery, and then reentered the roadway before striking a tree, Audelo said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Audelo said the circumstances that caused the vehicle to leave the roadway remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Investigators are examining whether a medical emergency, mechanical failure, or other contributing factors may have played a role in the crash, Audelo said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He said crews will inspect the vehicle as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Northampton County Coroner&#8217;s Office will conduct an autopsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A 71-year-old man is dead after his car hit a tree in Bethlehem Monday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1540,21478,62668,125723],"class_list":["post-306554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-car-crash","tag-fatal-accident","tag-single-vehicle","tag-unresponsive-driver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306554","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=306554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}