{"id":2108,"date":"2025-10-15T17:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2108\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:29:07","slug":"motorcyclist-dies-in-late-night-crash-on-i-279-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2108\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist dies in late-night crash on I-279 in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/z1CEzcYSv6osF1ho_3o4Xg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTQyMDtoPTIzNztjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/wpxi_cox_articles_540\/9d69855b2b3523c69463ecff655a4b15\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A motorcyclist is dead after a late-night crash on a highway in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to a Pennsylvania State Police report, the crash happened just before midnight on Tuesday on southbound I-279 near the Hazlett Street Exit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators say the motorcyclist, identified as Derrick Johnson Jr., 23, of Pittsburgh, lost control and overturned his bike before sliding into a Kia Sorento in the right lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Johnson died at an area hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist is dead after a late-night crash on a highway in Pittsburgh. According to a Pennsylvania State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1975,1974,1973,1224,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-2108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-derrick-johnson-jr","9":"tag-hazlett-street-exit","10":"tag-motorcyclist","11":"tag-pennsylvania-state-police","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","14":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108","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=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}