UPDATED August 6, 2026<\/p>\n
On August 5, 2026, at approximately 5:00 P.M., Troopers out of SP Buffalo, Troop T responded to a motorcycle collision on the Oak Street on-ramp and I-190 in the city of Buffalo. Investigation determined that a 2016 Yamaha operated by Galen E. Owens, 32 of Lockport, NY was traveling on the Oak Street on-ramp to I-190 NB at a high rate of speed. The Yamaha struck a concrete barrier on the curve. The Yamaha become airborne traveling through the air striking a concrete support for I-190. The operator and motorcycle come to rest on the ground approximately 42 feet beneath the I-190.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Owens was transported to the Erie County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office for autopsy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The NYSP Collision Reconstruction Unit, Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Buffalo Police Department assisted in this investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATED August 6, 2026 On August 5, 2026, at approximately 5:00 P.M., Troopers out of SP Buffalo, Troop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-315456","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\/315456","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=315456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}