On July 31, 2026, at approximately 7:40 p.m., New York State Police at Oneonta responded to a crash involving a motorcycle on County Highway 48 in the town of Oneonta.\u00a0<\/p>\n
An investigation determined that a 2018 Chevrolet Equinox, operated by a 74-year-old Otego man, was traveling west on County Highway 48 when a deer entered the roadway.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The operator of the Chevrolet Equinox was unable to avoid the deer and struck it. The deer propelled into the eastbound lane and struck a KTM motorcycle and the operator.\u00a0 The motorcyclist lost control of the motorcycle and crashed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The operator of the Chevrolet Equinox and a passerby were provided CPR instructions by an Otsego County 911 dispatcher and began lifesaving efforts until a New York State Trooper arrived and continued those efforts.\u00a0 Oneonta Fire and EMS arrived on scene and continued lifesaving measures.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite those efforts, the motorcyclist who was later identified as Nathaniel T. Walker, 25, of Oneonta, was pronounced deceased at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing; however, there are no indications of foul play or impairment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On July 31, 2026, at approximately 7:40 p.m., New York State Police at Oneonta responded to a crash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-313452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313452","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=313452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}