Bucks Co. Motorcyclist ID'd In Fatal PA Turnpike Crash

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA —The Bristol man killed in a fatal crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Lehigh County on Sunday has been identified.

Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio announced that the motorcyclist who was struck and killed by another vehicle was John Joseph Sweeney, 50, of Bristol.

Pennsylvania State Police Troop T Pocono Station is investigating the fatal crash that occurred at 9:09 a.m. on Sunday at Mile Marker 67 in Washington Township, Lehigh County.

Sweeney was among a group of five other riders when he was struck by a wrong-way driver, a 24-year-old Perth Amboy, N.J., woman, State Police said.

Sweeney's cause of death was ruled accidental due to blunt force injuries, the Lehigh County Coroner's Office said.

State Police said that a 24-year-old woman from Perth Amboy, N.J., was driving a 2019 Honda HRV southbound in the turnpike's northbound lanes and struck two motorcycles from a group of six that were moving together.

State Police said Sweeney, who was driving a 2016 Harley Davidson motorcycle, was pronounced dead at the scene.

A 24-year-old Bristol man also suffered injuries and was treated at the scene by Northern Valley Emergency Medical Services and transported to Lehigh Valley Hospital Cedar Crest for treatment, state police said.