{"id":47019,"date":"2025-11-28T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/47019\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:48:07","slug":"allentown-man-dies-after-tractor-trailer-backs-into-him-coroner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/47019\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown man dies after tractor trailer backs into him, coroner says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PXPE4GUYP5CY5GHFOUNS7APAKE\">An Allentown man who was struck by a tractor trailer last week died five days later, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighcounty.org\/departments\/coroner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighcounty.org\/departments\/coroner\">Lehigh County coroner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VNBMJIDLDBBKRC77K7YC4C3WBI\">Luis A. Cruz, 46, was standing behind a tractor trailer that backed into him at 11:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, in the 700 block of West Linden Street in Allentown, according to a news release from the coroner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RB7LREHBOFE5HO3QXQELNJMABA\">Cruz was pronounced dead at 4:40 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Salisbury Township, the release says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"Y437GZ7N6NGJNBN6IVMFNRN2XU\">The cause of death is blunt force injuries, and the manner of death is accidental. The coroner and Allentown Police Department are investigating the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown man who was struck by a tractor trailer last week died five days later, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-47019","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\/47019","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=47019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}