{"id":80623,"date":"2026-01-07T21:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/80623\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T21:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:31:10","slug":"bicyclist-dies-after-collision-with-motor-vehicle-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/80623\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist dies after collision with motor vehicle \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published January 07. 2026 11:44AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">A New Year\u2019s Eve collision, involving a motor vehicle and a bicycle, in Whitehall Township has resulted in the death of a Nazareth man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio reported Jan. 2 that Nickolas A. Siegfried, 39, was pronounced dead just after 2 p.m. Dec. 31, 2025, in the emergency department at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, Salisbury Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">According to Buglio, the crash was reported approximately 1:15 p.m. Dec. 31, 2025, near the 2600 block of MacArthur Road, near Sutler Drive. It was reported an adult male, later identified as Siegfried, was operating a bicycle when he was struck by a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Siegfried was transported to the hospital, where he later died as a result of the injuries sustained in the incident, Buglio reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">An autopsy was performed Jan. 2 at the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office and Forensic Center. According to Buglio, the cause of death is multiple blunt force trauma. The manner of death was ruled an accident, Buglio said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">In addition to the coroner\u2019s office, the Whitehall Township Police Department, the Lehigh County Crash Team and the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office are handling a continued investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published January 07. 2026 11:44AM A New Year\u2019s Eve collision, involving a motor vehicle and a bicycle, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-80623","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\/80623","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=80623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}