{"id":76248,"date":"2026-01-02T15:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76248\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T15:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:59:24","slug":"bicyclist-who-died-in-route-145-crash-in-whitehall-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76248\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist who died in Route 145 crash in Whitehall identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials have identified the bicyclist who died <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/12\/31\/crash-involving-pedestrian-prompts-road-closure-in-lehigh-county\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday in a crash in Whitehall Township<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nickolas A. Siegfried, 39, of Nazareth, was riding his bike about 1:15 p.m. in the 2600 block of MacArthur Road, which is Route 145, near the intersection with Sutler Drive when he was hit by a vehicle, according to Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio.<\/p>\n<p>Siegfried was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, where he died from his injuries about an hour later. Buglio said Siegfried\u2019s death was caused by blunt-force trauma, with the manner accidental.<\/p>\n<p>Whitehall police said a full investigation is underway. That portion of the road was closed for several hours while police investigated. The Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s office is also helping with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials have identified the bicyclist who died Wednesday in a crash in Whitehall Township. Nickolas A. Siegfried, 39,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,202,433,182,139,28,432,1654],"class_list":["post-76248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-whitehall-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76248","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=76248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}