{"id":314617,"date":"2026-10-26T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314617\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:00:09","slug":"15-year-old-dies-weeks-after-being-struck-by-falling-tree-branch-in-allentown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314617\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old dies weeks after being struck by falling tree branch in Allentown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A 15-year-old boy died Sunday, a month after he was struck by a falling tree branch near the Little Lehigh Parkway, according to the Lehigh County coroner.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was injured around 9:10 a.m. Sept. 26 near the 1300 block of Oxford Drive. He was with members of the Parkland High School cross-country team, the coroner said.<\/p>\n<p>He died at Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Cedar Crest at 11:39 a.m. Sunday. The coroner ruled the death an accident caused by complications from multiple blunt force injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner said the boy\u2019s name will not be released, citing his family\u2019s privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A 15-year-old boy died Sunday, a month after he was struck by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-314617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314617","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=314617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}