{"id":48459,"date":"2025-11-30T19:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/48459\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:46:09","slug":"coroner-identifies-man-who-died-following-upper-saucon-crash-saucon-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/48459\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner Identifies Man Who Died Following Upper Saucon Crash \u2013 Saucon Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s office has identified the <a href=\"https:\/\/sauconsource.com\/2025\/11\/26\/man-dies-from-injuries-suffered-in-upper-saucon-crash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">21-year-old man who died <\/a>after a car in which he was a front seat passenger struck a utility pole on Flint Hill Road in Upper Saucon Township Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Coroner Dan Buglio identified the man as Andy I. Uruchima Lema of Allentown in a news release Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Uruchima Lema was pronounced dead at 10:56 p.m. Tuesday at St. Luke\u2019s University Hospital-Bethlehem in Fountain Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Buglio said his office completed an autopsy Friday, but that Uruchima Lema\u2019s cause and manner of death are still undetermined pending further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Two other people who were in the vehicle at the time of the crash were later taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest for treatment of injuries, according to Upper Saucon Township Police, who said their <a href=\"https:\/\/sauconsource.com\/2025\/11\/26\/significantly-worn-tires-cited-in-injury-crash-on-flint-hill-road\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">initial investigation determined that the vehicle\u2019s tires were \u201csignificantly worn.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 9:15 p.m. near the intersection of Flint Hill Road and Forest Drive. It remains under investigation by the Upper Saucon Township Police Department, the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s office and the coroner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s office has identified the 21-year-old man who died after a car in which he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,17147,347,111,351,28135,10454,433,1399,206,2795],"class_list":["post-48459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-coroner","tag-crash","tag-death","tag-fatal","tag-flint-hill-road","tag-killed","tag-lehigh-county","tag-man","tag-police","tag-upper-saucon-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48459","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=48459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}