{"id":313524,"date":"2026-10-24T18:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T18:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313524\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T18:34:07","slug":"coroner-ids-south-whitehall-twp-man-killed-in-motorcycle-accident-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313524\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner ID\u2019s South Whitehall Twp. man killed in motorcycle accident | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S. WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8211; The Lehigh County Coroner has identified the 30-year-old man who was killed in a motorcycle accident on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to coroner Daniel Buglio, the motorcyclist was Marques T. Sturdivant, of South Whitehall Township. Buglio says Sturdivant was pronounced dead on Thursday at 11:37 a.m. in the Emergency Department at Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Cedar Crest.<\/p>\n<p>Sturdivant was the operator of a motorcycle involved in a crash that occurred on Thursday at approximately 10:13 a.m. in the 4400 block of Huckleberry Road.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner says the cause of death was determined to be multiple blunt force injuries, and the manner of death has been ruled an accident. Sturdivant was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, according to Buglio.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office &amp; Forensic Center, the South Whitehall Township Police Department is investigating this incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office &amp; Forensic Center extended its condolences to Mr. Sturdivant\u2019s family and loved ones during this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"S. WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8211; The Lehigh County Coroner has identified the 30-year-old man who was killed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,103862,6977,38701,1024,107967,128041,73374,3628,664],"class_list":["post-313524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-blunt-force-injuries","tag-fatal-crash","tag-helmet","tag-lehigh-county-coroner","tag-lehigh-valley-hospital-cedar-crest","tag-marques-t-sturdivant","tag-motorcycle-accident","tag-police-investigation","tag-south-whitehall-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313524","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=313524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}