Update: Man In Route 22 Crash Died From "Cardiac Event"

Updated at 9:45 p.m.: Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim says the man whose car crashed into a tractor trailer on Route 22 on Friday afternoon died from "a cardiac event," not the crash.

Grim said the death of Anthony D. Farole, 67, of 119 Wylie Circle, Albrightsville was natural.

Updated at 5:30 p.m.: A 65-year-old man was killed Friday afternoon when his vehicle collided with a tractor trailer on Route 22 in Upper Macungie, near the South Whitehall border, state police at Fogelsville said.

Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim pronounced the man dead at the scene. He has not yet been identified, pending notification of next of kin. An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death.

According to state police, the man was driving a vehicle that was traveling east, and slowly, on Route 22, in the left lane of travel at about 1:30 p.m. For reasons not yet known, he went into the right lane, up an embankment, then hit the right rear side of the tractor trailer as he came back into the right lane, state police said.

Route 22 east was reduced to one lane of travel for two hours, following the accident, but has been reopened. 

The driver of the tractor trailer was Brad  L. Yorgy, 36, of Red Lion. He was not injured. After the crash, he was able to pull safely to the south shoulder of Route 22, state police said.

Cetronia and Greenawalds fire departments, and Cetronia ambulance also responded.

3:34 p.m.: The Lehigh County Coroner was called to a two-vehicle accident this afternoon on Route 22, between the Cetronia Road exit and the turnpike interchange in Upper Macungie, near the South Whitehall border.

State police at Fogelsville said one person was killed in the 1:30 p.m. crash in the eastbound lanes of Route 22. 

The accident involved a commercial vehicle and a passenger vehicle, state police said.

Patch will update the story as soon as more information becomes available.