{"id":322435,"date":"2026-11-06T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T15:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322435\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T15:06:09","slug":"allentown-man-dead-after-being-hit-by-train-in-salisbury-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322435\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown man dead after being hit by train in Salisbury Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 46-year-old Allentown man died after he was hit by a train Thursday night in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n<p>The man was struck about 10:30 p.m. in the 1400 block of Constitution Drive, according to a Salisbury Township police news release. Horace J. Kieffer, 46, was pronounced dead at the scene, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio said.<\/p>\n<p>The conductor stopped the train and remained at the scene. They are cooperating with the investigation, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy is scheduled for Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Township police, the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office and Norfolk Southern are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 46-year-old Allentown man died after he was hit by a train Thursday night in Lehigh County. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,2376,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-322435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-breaking-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\/322435","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=322435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}