{"id":226524,"date":"2026-05-10T20:40:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226524\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:40:36","slug":"route-6-closed-in-brooklyn-after-motorcycle-crash-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226524\/","title":{"rendered":"Route 6 closed in Brooklyn after motorcycle crash, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN \u2014 Route 6 was closed in both directions on Sunday afternoon after a crash involving a motorcycle caused serious injuries, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut State Police said troopers from Troop D were called to Route 6 in Brooklyn at 2:14 p.m. for a report of a crash between a car and a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>Police said life-threatening injuries were reported at the scene and one person was transported to a hospital by a Life Star medical helicopter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Route 6 is closed &#8220;for the foreseeable future,&#8221; police said, noting drivers should avoid the area. They said the accident reconstruction team was on its way to the scene as of 3:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Connecticut Department of Transportation, Route 6 is closed in the area of Brickyard Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cci_endnote_contact\" title=\"CCI End Note Contact\">This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN \u2014 Route 6 was closed in both directions on Sunday afternoon after a crash involving a motorcycle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,12485,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-226524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-ct-insider","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}