A speeding vehicle slammed into a vehicle carrying William Wilson III, 24, who was ejected after it overturned, police said.
The bright lights to the left are from an accident investigation this morning on Route 22 West near Route 145 in Whitehall Township. The crash happened about 2:30, police said; this photo is from just after 6:30.
William Wilson III, of the 400 block of N. Main Street in the Stewartsville section of the township, died of blunt force injuries at 3:40 a.m., a spokesman with the office said. Wilson was thrown from his vehicle after another speeding vehicle slammed into it around 2:25 a.m. at mile-marker 322, police said earlier today.
Both vehicles in the initial crash struck other vehicles, authorities said. The driver of the speeding vehicle and a second person in the vehicle with Wilson were taken to Lehigh Valley Township in Salisbury Township. Officials previously said they were both in critical condition.
The westbound lanes of Route 22 were shut for nearly six hours following the crash.
The crash occurred about a mile west of a collision early Oct. 28 that left a Pen Argyl Area High School Spanish teacher dead.
In the earlier crash, Angela R. Pessina, 29, of Allentown, was on Route 22 West about 2:40 a.m. when her SUV crashed into the rear of a box truck that had slowed due to a previous, unrelated rollover crash. That crash occurred at mile-marker 323.2 just across the border in Hanover Township, Lehigh County.