{"id":382104,"date":"2026-10-25T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T10:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/382104\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T10:58:07","slug":"news-12-bronx-motorcyclist-identified-after-deadly-fiery-crash-on-cross-bronx-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/382104\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Motorcyclist Identified After Deadly Fiery Crash On Cross Bronx Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Bronx man has been identified as the victim of a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/motorcyclist-killed-in-fiery-cross-bronx-expressway-crash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatal motorcycle crash that sparked a fire on the Cross Bronx Expressway<\/a>, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say Pedro Cortes, 49, was killed in the crash Saturday afternoon on the westbound side of the expressway near Exit 4.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say Cortes was riding a motorcycle when he struck a Dodge Durango shortly after 4:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The impact caused the motorcycle to burst into flames, with FDNY crews responding to extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Cortes suffered severe trauma and was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The 51-year-old woman driving the Dodge Durango remained at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx man has been identified as the victim of a fatal motorcycle crash that sparked a fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-382104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382104","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=382104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}