{"id":76233,"date":"2026-01-02T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76233\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T15:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:39:09","slug":"bicyclist-death-on-macarthur-road-victim-identified-as-nazareth-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76233\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist death on MacArthur Road: Victim identified as Nazareth man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7D5SHFLP5BAM3CKNPY75JDWDEA\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/lehigh-county\/2025\/12\/bicyclist-dies-after-macarthur-road-crash-in-whitehall-township.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/lehigh-county\/2025\/12\/bicyclist-dies-after-macarthur-road-crash-in-whitehall-township.html\">bicyclist who died after being struck by a vehicle <\/a>Wednesday on a bustling Whitehall Township thoroughfare has been identified by authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XKDNJGKKXNATZNQRDRP4U3RRKU\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Lehigh%20County%20Coroners%20Office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Lehigh%20County%20Coroners%20Office\">Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office<\/a> on Friday identified the deceased as 39-year-old Nickolas A. Siegfried, of Nazareth. Siegfried was pronounced dead just after 2 p.m. Wednesday at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Salisbury%20Township\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Salisbury%20Township\">Salisbury Township.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QD4APWI7CZBADDABTEYLGP4GGA\">An autopsy was completed Friday morning. Siegfried died from multiple blunt force trauma due to the collision and the manner was ruled accidental by Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"47C472KBWRH2FBDR5J3IHWDYPM\">Whitehall police said the crash occurred about 1:15 p.m. Wednesday on MacArthur Road (Route 145) near Sutler Drive in the township. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ABSXJ27O3NEXDBOGFYYZRCYOVA\">It\u2019s unclear what led up to the crash or if the offending driver stopped and is cooperating with police. Whitehall Police Chief Michael Marks and Pamela Lehman, spokeswoman for the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office, couldn\u2019t immediately be reached for more details Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JRLMPNRRKFHERDKPCPVZMVNV5E\">Wednesday\u2019s accident shut down MacArthur Road, a multi-lane road, in both directions as law enforcement investigated at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YTV67TNURJD5ZCRTQEUKY2Z5UY\">The incident remains under investigation by the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office; Whitehall Police Department; and Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bicyclist who died after being struck by a vehicle Wednesday on a bustling Whitehall Township thoroughfare has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-76233","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\/76233","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=76233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76233\/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=76233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}