{"id":55883,"date":"2025-12-09T06:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/55883\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T06:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:42:09","slug":"coroner-ids-allentown-man-driver-killed-after-striking-state-troopers-with-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/55883\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner IDs Allentown man driver killed after striking state troopers with truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 A 27-year-old Allentown man <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleynews.com\/local-news\/man-who-hit-state-police-with-truck-during-traffic-stop-then-fled-is-killed-when-he-hits-pole-building\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">who hit two state police troopers with his pickup truck just before fatally crashing<\/a> was identified Monday by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Cristian F. Jimenez was serving probation after pleading guilty to resisting arrest in a previous incident, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez died early Sunday morning at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest from multiple blunt force traumas, according to Lehigh County Coroner Dan Buglio.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers from the Fogelsville barracks stopped Jimenez\u2019s Ford F-150 about 12:15 a.m. near 29th and Lehigh streets in Allentown, according to state police.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez drove away, hitting troopers with his truck \u201cin an attempt to cause serious bodily injury and fled the scene,\u201d police said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers returned to their car and chased Jimenez, who lost control of his truck near 12th and Vultee streets, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>He hit a fire hydrant and utility pole before crashing into the Lehigh Valley Logistics building at 1801 S. 12th St. Jimenez was ejected from his truck; troopers offered Jimenez medical assistance before they were all taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Buglio pronounced Jimenez dead at 12:45 a.m. Sunday, while both troopers were treated and released.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez was ordered in March to serve two years on probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest, court records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 A 27-year-old Allentown man who hit two state police troopers with his pickup truck just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,30911,30912,121,120,30913,30786,30914,30915,30916],"class_list":["post-55883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-cristian-jimenez-crash","tag-allentown-fatal-crash-12th-and-vultee","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-cristian-f-jimenez-fatal-crash","tag-cristian-jimenez","tag-did-the-guy-who-fled-state-police-in-allentown-die","tag-man-who-hit-troopers-involved-in-fatal-crash","tag-who-was-the-guy-who-fled-police-in-allentown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55883","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=55883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}