COOPERSBURG, Pa. — The man fatally hit by a tractor-trailer in the borough early Sunday has been identified as a 35-year-old from Lower Macungie Township.
David Andrew Mayers was pronounced dead at 4:25 a.m., about an hour after he was hit in the 300 Block of South 3rd Street, which is part of Route 309 in the borough.
Lehigh County Coroner Dan Buglio identified Mayers in a release Monday.
Buglio said the cause of death was blunt force injuries and ruled the manner of death was an accident.
In addition to the coroner’s office, the Coopersburg Police Department, the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office and the Lehigh County Crash Team also are investigating.
Third fatal incident in less than a week
It was the second fatal pedestrian accident and third roadway fatality in Lehigh County in six days.
A 69-year-old Allentown woman was fatally hit by a car on a city street on the morning of April 7.
Christie C. Tito died at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest about 9:30 a.m. Monday, four hours after she was hit by a vehicle in the area of Hamilton and Franklin streets, authorities said.
A 21-year-old Allentown man died from injuries sustained after his car veered off an overpass and landed on Interstate 78.
Edwin Noel Diaz was pronounced dead at 1:13 a.m. Friday at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Cedar Crest.
The cause of death was multiple blunt force injuries, Buglio said.
