UPPER SAUCON TWP., Pa. – The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office has identified the man who died after a crash earlier this week in Upper Saucon Township.<\/p>\n
21-year-old Andy Uruchima Lema of Allentown was a front-seat passenger in a vehicle that hit a utility pole in the 1800 block of Flint Hill Road just after 9 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n
Monday night at approximately 9:15 p.m., emergency responders were dispatched to a single-vehicle crash on Flint Hill Road, just east of the intersection with Forest Drive.<\/p>\n
Uruchima Lema was pronounced dead at St. Luke’s – Bethlehem a short time later.<\/p>\n
The vehicle was traveling eastbound at approximately 30 mph when the tires, described by the operator as being in \u201cpoor condition,\u201d lost traction, according to a news release from the Upper Saucon Township Police Department.<\/p>\n
Police said the car spun sideways and collided with a utility pole on the opposite side of the roadway.<\/p>\n
Authorities say two other people were injured in the crash. They were taken to the hospital for treatment but no update on their conditions has been given.<\/p>\n
The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office, the Upper Saucon Township Police Department, and the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office are jointly investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER SAUCON TWP., Pa. – The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office has identified the man who died after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,1816,2795,27728],"class_list":["post-47236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county-district-attorney","tag-upper-saucon-township","tag-upper-saucon-township-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47236","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=47236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}