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Nearly $800 had been raised as of Friday, July 15 on a GoFundMe for the family of 45-year-old Jose A. Perez.
"Joe was such a good man. He was my everything, my protector, my best friend," his daughter Celina Perez wrote.
Perez was behind the wheel of a car that veered into an oncoming lane and struck another vehicle on the bridge around 9:10 p.m., officials with the Lehigh County Coroner's Office said.
Perez was taken to St. Luke’s University Hospital - Bethlehem, where he was pronounced dead at 10:31 p.m., the county coroner said.
He died from traumatic injuries sustained in the crash and his death was determined to be an accident.
Four other people were injured in the crash and taken to local trauma centers for treatment, the Allentown Fire Department said.
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