A bicyclist died after he was struck by a vehicle Wednesday, according to the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n
The crash occurred about 1:15 p.m. on MacArthur Road (Route 145) near Sutler Drive in Whitehall Township, Coroner Daniel Buglio said in a news release.<\/p>\n
The rider was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest in Salisbury Township, where he died of his injuries from the crash, Buglio said.<\/p>\n
The coroner was identifying the rider only as an adult male.<\/p>\n
An autopsy is scheduled for Friday to assist in determining the cause and manner of death. <\/p>\n
The investigation remains active and ongoing by the coroner\u2019s office, Whitehall police<\/a>, the Lehigh County Crash Team and the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office<\/a>, Buglio said.<\/p>\n Authorities did not immediately release further information, including whether the driver of the vehicle stopped to cooperate with investigators.<\/p>\n The crash closed MacArthur Road, a multi-lane thoroughfare, in both directions, according to a report from the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bicyclist died after he was struck by a vehicle Wednesday, according to the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-75068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75068","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=75068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}