{"id":183631,"date":"2026-05-04T17:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183631\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:41:07","slug":"bethlehem-police-seek-witnesses-video-in-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183631\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem police seek witnesses, video in fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bethlehem, NY (WRGB) \u2014 Bethlehem police are asking for the public\u2019s help as they investigate a fatal crash involving a motorcycle and a SUV at a busy Glenmont intersection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/news\/local\/delmar-motorcyclist-identified-after-fatal-crash-with-suv-investigation-eric-thompson-53-year-old-19-delmar-glenmont-albany-medical-center-hospital-mason-ruggaber-route-9w-bethlehem-police-magee-drive-glenmont-cbs6-wrgb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bethlehem Police Department responded Monday, April 27, 2026, to a report of a motor vehicle crash involving a car and a motorcycle at the intersection of Route 9W and Magee Drive in Glenmont. A preliminary investigation indicates a sport utility vehicle traveling southbound on Route 9W collided with a motorcycle traveling northbound on Route 9W.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the SUV\u2019s driver, 53-year-old Eric Thompson of Glenmont, was taken to Albany Medical Center Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The motorcyclist, 19-year-old Mason Ruggaber of Delmar, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem Police crash investigation personnel responded and conducted a crash reconstruction. The crash remains under investigation to determine contributing factors, and police said all parties are cooperating.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are asking anyone who witnessed the crash or who may have surveillance or dash camera video from the area to contact the Bethlehem Police Department\u2019s non-emergency number at 518-439-9973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bethlehem, NY (WRGB) \u2014 Bethlehem police are asking for the public\u2019s help as they investigate a fatal crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-183631","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\/183631","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=183631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}