{"id":168633,"date":"2026-04-17T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168633\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:45:07","slug":"corrections-officer-killed-in-motorcycle-crash-in-philadelphia-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168633\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrections officer killed in motorcycle crash in Philadelphia, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A corrections officer was killed in a motorcycle crash in Philadelphia&#8217;s Holmesburg neighborhood on Friday morning, police and the city&#8217;s Department of Prisons said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the accident happened around 6:45 a.m. in the 4300 block of Cottman Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The man was rushed to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital and pronounced dead at 7:10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Philadelphia Department of Prisons confirmed the man was a corrections officer. Police have not identified the man pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash remains under investigation by the Philadelphia Police Department&#8217;s crash investigation division.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A corrections officer was killed in a motorcycle crash in Philadelphia&#8217;s Holmesburg neighborhood on Friday morning, police and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5315,28,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-168633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-holmesburg","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}