{"id":97358,"date":"2026-01-12T15:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97358\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:48:14","slug":"investigation-underway-after-motorcyclist-killed-in-onslow-county-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97358\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway after motorcyclist killed in Onslow County crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The NC State Highway Patrol is investigating an Onslow County crash that killed a motorcyclist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Trooper Malcolm Yazzie, on Saturday, just after 8:15 p.m., 53-year-old Juan Rivera, of Hubert, was traveling on Queens Creek Road on his motorcycle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An SUV, driven by 40-year-old Kethia Massenat, was making a left out of Heron Watch Drive onto Queens Creek Road when Trooper Yazzie says Massenat failed to yield and entered to roadway in front of Rivera. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In an attempt to avoid colliding with the SUV, Rivera laid his bike down. However, he still collided with the SUV and was pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Massenat is charged with failure to yield and misdemeanor death by motor vehicle. She was given a citation and is set to appear in court in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The State Highway Patrol is still investigating the deadly crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The NC State Highway Patrol is investigating an Onslow County crash that killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[45048,45049,45050,9,24,63,45047,122,124,123,45046],"class_list":["post-97358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-juan-rivera","tag-kethia-massenat","tag-nc-state-highway-patrol","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-onslow-county","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97358","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=97358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}