{"id":324566,"date":"2026-08-19T01:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324566\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T01:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:40:23","slug":"state-route-8-fatal-crash-motorcyclist-strikes-tractor-trailer-in-town-of-ohio-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324566\/","title":{"rendered":"State Route 8 Fatal Crash: Motorcyclist Strikes Tractor-Trailer in Town of Ohio | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"NYS Police\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/64c7fe66d7456.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AP<\/p>\n<p>OHIO, N.Y. &#8212; A motorcycle rider died after crashing into a tractor-trailer on State Route 8 in the town of Ohio Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>New York State Police reported the crash happened at about 9:30 a.m. Troopers said a 21-year-old man from Wolcott was riding a 2026 Yamaha motorcycle northbound when he failed to make a right-hand curve.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcycle crossed into the southbound lane and hit a 2019 Freightliner tractor-trailer driven by James E. Day, 47, of Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>After the crash, the motorcycle left the road and struck a tree. The rider was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A Drug Recognition Expert determined the tractor-trailer driver was not impaired.<\/p>\n<p>The NYSP Collision Reconstruction Unit assisted with the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP OHIO, N.Y. &#8212; A motorcycle rider died after crashing into a tractor-trailer on State Route 8 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[610,9,11,10,49,51,50,27],"class_list":["post-324566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-local","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","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324566","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=324566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}