Victim ‘held on for his life’ in deadly Allentown hit-and-run with Amazon driver, police say

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — An Allentown man who died in a hit-and-run crash in November held on for his life as a delivery driver swerved and braked in an attempt to throw him from the van’s hood, authorities said.

Police said they used license plate readers and video footage to aid in their investigation of the killing of 29-year-old Rigiberto Hernandez Arias.

Arias died Nov. 21 at Emaus Avenue and South Fourth Street after getting out of his SUV and confronting the delivery driver, 30-year-old Troy Johnson of West Philadelphia, according to recently unsealed court records…

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