{"id":55224,"date":"2025-12-08T14:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/55224\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:43:08","slug":"a-man-is-dead-after-a-police-chase-in-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/55224\/","title":{"rendered":"A man is dead after a police chase in Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State police say a 27-year-old man from Allentown ran over troopers, then crashed into a building where he was ejected from his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 A man is dead after a police chase in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lehigh-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lehigh County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Around midnight Sunday, troopers attempted a traffic stop on a truck in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>State police pursued the vehicle until it stopped near Lehigh and 29th Street.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when the 27-year-old man driving allegedly drove his truck into the troopers, before taking off again.<\/p>\n<p>The driver lost control and hit a fire hydrant and a utility pole before being ejected from the truck after hitting a building.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers and EMS provided medical assistance to the driver; however, he was pronounced dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>State police and Allentown police are investigating this deadly crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State police say a 27-year-old man from Allentown ran over troopers, then crashed into a building where he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-55224","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\/55224","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=55224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}