BETHLEHEM, Pa. —The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office has identified the Bucks County man who died Sunday morning after being struck by a wrong-way driver on the turnpike.
John Joseph Sweeney, 50, of Bristol was operating a motorcycle struck by a vehicle going southbound in the northbound lanes, Coroner Dan Buglio said in a release.
The cause of death was blunt force injuries and the manner of death was ruled an accident.
According to a release Sunday from state police, authorities were dispatched at 9:09 a.m. to the scene of the crash at mile marker 67 on I-467 in Washington Township, Lehigh County.
Sweeney was pronounced dead at 10:10 a.m., police said.
Police determined that a 24-year-old female from Perth Amboy, New Jersey, operating a 2019 Honda HRV "was driving southbound in the northbound lanes of travel," and hit two motorcycles in a group of six.
A 24-year-old man from Bristol also was injured. He was treated on the scene by Northern Valley Emergency Medical Services and transported to Lehigh Valley Hospital, Cedar Crest.
The operator of the Honda sustained minor injuries, state police said.
The coroner's office, the state police and the Lehigh County District Attorney's Office are investigating.
