A 29-year-old Allentown man is dead after being hit by a vehicle Friday night in the city.<\/p>\n
The man was hit and run over by the vehicle \u201cfollowing an incident\u201d around 7:55 p.m. in the 2400 block of South Fourth Street, according to a news release from Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio. The man was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.<\/p>\n
Buglio said he is withholding the man\u2019s identity \u201cto allow the family the opportunity to grieve this tragic loss privately.\u201d<\/p>\n
An autopsy is scheduled for Monday at the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office and Forensic Center.<\/p>\n
In addition to the coroner\u2019s office, the Allentown Police Department and Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office are also investigating.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to call the Criminal Investigations Division at 610-437-7721 or the police desk at 610-437-7753 (Ext 1). Additionally, anonymous text tips can be sent via the Tip411 App available on the Allentown Police Facebook Page (https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/allentownpolice<\/a>) or via the Allentown Police Department website at https:\/\/www.allentownpa.gov\/Police<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 29-year-old Allentown man is dead after being hit by a vehicle Friday night in the city. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,202,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-42417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42417","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=42417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}