{"id":310720,"date":"2026-10-20T18:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310720\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T18:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:48:11","slug":"easton-man-identified-after-fatal-train-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310720\/","title":{"rendered":"Easton man identified after fatal train strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHAMPTON CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A 39-year-old Easton man who was struck by a train earlier this month has been identified, the Northampton County Coroner\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>James Wesley Brown was walking east along railroad tracks on Easton\u2019s South Side at about 6:30 a.m. Oct. 7 when a westbound Norfolk Southern train struck him, according to Coroner Zachary R. Lysek.<\/p>\n<p>Brown was taken to St. Luke\u2019s Hospital\u2013Anderson Campus, where he died from multiple blunt-force injuries. The manner of death remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHAMPTON CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A 39-year-old Easton man who was struck by a train earlier this month has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-310720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310720","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=310720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}