{"id":325245,"date":"2026-08-19T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325245\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:40:09","slug":"wolcott-man-killed-in-motorcycle-crash-state-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325245\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolcott man killed in motorcycle crash, state police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OHIO, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police said a motorcyclist was killed in a crash in the Town of Ohio, Herkimer County, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p>The state police identified the driver as a 21-year-old man from Wolcott, N.Y. His name was not released.<\/p>\n<p>The police said the man was riding a 2026 Yamaha motorcycle northbound on State Route 8 when he failed to negotiate a right-hand curve in the roadway. He entered the southbound lane and struck a 2019 Freightliner tractor-trailer driven by a Canadian man.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ | <a href=\"https:\/\/cnycentral.com\/news\/local\/two-people-killed-in-overnight-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Two people killed in overnight crash, DeWitt Police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist then left the roadway and struck a tree. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A drug recognition expert responded to the scene and determined the operator of the tractor-trailer was not impaired.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the matter is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OHIO, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police said a motorcyclist was killed in a crash in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-325245","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\/325245","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=325245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}