{"id":178314,"date":"2026-04-28T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178314\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:27:09","slug":"19-year-old-motorcyclist-identified-after-fatal-crash-with-suv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178314\/","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old motorcyclist identified after fatal crash with SUV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenmont, NY (WRGB) \u2014 A 19-year-old Delmar motorcyclist was killed Monday in a crash at a busy Glenmont intersection, Bethlehem police said.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem Police Department officers responded Monday, April 27, 2026, to a <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/news\/local\/car-motorcycle-crash-in-glenmont-route-9w-petrol-gas-station-walmart-wrgb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report of a crash involving a car and a motorcycle<\/a> at the intersection of Route 9W and Magee Drive in Glenmont.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary investigation found that a SUV traveling southbound on Route 9W crashed with a motorcycle traveling northbound on Route 9W.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the SUV driver as 53-year-old Eric Thompson of Glenmont. He was taken to Albany Medical Center Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist was identified as 19-year-old Mason Ruggaber of Delmar. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem Police crash investigation personnel responded and conducted a crash reconstruction as part of the investigation. The crash remains under investigation to determine contributing factors, and police said all parties are cooperating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glenmont, NY (WRGB) \u2014 A 19-year-old Delmar motorcyclist was killed Monday in a crash at a busy Glenmont&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-178314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178314","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=178314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}