{"id":42021,"date":"2025-11-23T00:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42021\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T00:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T00:45:07","slug":"allentown-sees-two-pedestrian-strikes-hours-apart-one-fatal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42021\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown sees two pedestrian strikes hours apart, one fatal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Allentown Police are investigating two separate pedestrian strikes Friday night, one of which has been confirmed fatal.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a pedestrian who was hit earlier in the evening on the 2400 block of South 4th Street has died from their injuries. Investigators are searching for a white box truck, a cab-over-style vehicle, wanted in connection with the hit-and-run.<\/p>\n<p>The truck was seen in the area immediately after the impact and may have front-end damage, authorities said. No license plate information has been released. Police are asking anyone with information or video footage from the neighborhood to contact the department.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, a second pedestrian was struck at the intersection of North 8th and Linden streets. The victim was taken to a hospital, but police have not released details on the extent of their injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5649-1600x1200.jpeg\" alt=\"8th and linden street allentown pedestrian hit and run\" class=\"wp-image-6877\"  \/>8th and Linden Street after a pedestrian was struck in Allentown, Pa. (Photo Courtesy: Rich Rolen)<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear whether the driver involved in the 8th and Linden incident stayed at the scene. Officers are working to determine what led to the collision.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about either incident is urged to contact Allentown Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Allentown Police are investigating two separate pedestrian strikes Friday night, one of which has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-42021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42021","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=42021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}