{"id":206937,"date":"2026-05-31T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206937\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T16:28:08","slug":"motorcyclist-seriously-injured-after-trying-to-avoid-car-in-north-philadelphia-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206937\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist seriously injured after trying to avoid car in North Philadelphia, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A man is fighting for his life after a serious motorcycle crash Saturday afternoon in North Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the crash happened around 2 p.m. as a man on a Kawasaki motorcycle was traveling south on 17th Street, heading towards the intersection of Allegheny Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>At the intersection, authorities said a car made an illegal U-turn in front of the motorcycle. The rider avoided the car but hit a pole.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to the hospital in extremely critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are searching for the driver of the vehicle that made the illegal U-turn and then fled the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A man is fighting for his life after a serious motorcycle crash Saturday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5993,3185,221,69,71,70,595],"class_list":["post-206937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-critical-condition","tag-motorcycle-crash","tag-north-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206937","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=206937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}