{"id":251573,"date":"2026-07-25T00:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251573\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T00:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:52:08","slug":"pennsylvania-motorcyclist-dies-in-fayette-county-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251573\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania motorcyclist dies in Fayette County crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fatal motorcycle crash in Wharton Township, Fayette County<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/news-team\/a0297bb0-8ade-4384-a1c8-36527f2a84dc\" aria-label=\"Mike Clark profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a0297bb0-8ade-4384-a1c8-36527f2a84dc_1477672142.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Mike Clark\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>FARMINGTON, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">One person died in a motorcycle crash Thursday night in Wharton Township, Fayette County.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The coroner&#8217;s office said Michael Burnsworth, 57, of Ohiopyle, died at the scene of the crash on Nelson Road. It happened around 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">No other vehicles were involved.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/get-pittsburgh-s-action-news-4-on-the-go-wtae\/44045498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fatal motorcycle crash in Wharton Township, Fayette County FARMINGTON, Pa. \u2014 One person died in a motorcycle crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17147,347,2298,107535,107536,3187,107537,78007,139,2008,83275,105137,4800,28,30,29,1358,2581,890,53576,10254],"class_list":["post-251573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-coroner","tag-crash","tag-fayette-county","tag-fayette-county-crash","tag-michael-burnsworth","tag-motorcycle","tag-motorcycle-crash-thursday-night","tag-nelson-road","tag-news","tag-office","tag-ohiopyle","tag-other-vehicle","tag-p-m","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-person","tag-scene","tag-victim","tag-wharton-township","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251573","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=251573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}