{"id":260305,"date":"2026-05-06T07:52:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260305\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:52:24","slug":"florida-man-seriously-injured-in-waterville-motorcycle-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260305\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man seriously injured in Waterville motorcycle accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATERVILLE, Maine (WABI) &#8211; A man from Florida was seriously injured in an accident while riding his motorcycle in Waterville Friday night according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a release from spokesperson Jason Longley, it happened just after 9 p.m. on College Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver of the motorcycle, Michael Wright, 39, of Keystone Heights, FL, was driving north before leaving the roadway and striking a curb, Longley says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wright was taken to Maine General Medical Center Thayer Campus in Waterville before being transported by LifeFlight to Maine Medical Center in Portland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Longley, Wright\u2019s condition appears to be improving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash remains under investigation. Maine State Police will help Waterville Police in reconstructing the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WABI. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERVILLE, Maine (WABI) &#8211; A man from Florida was seriously injured in an accident while riding his motorcycle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[690,28,30,29,1737,112561],"class_list":["post-260305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-accident","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-motorcycle","tag-waterville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}