{"id":252506,"date":"2026-07-26T18:58:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252506\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T18:58:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:58:51","slug":"19-year-old-killed-in-motorcycle-crash-in-hempfield-township-westmoreland-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252506\/","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old killed in motorcycle crash in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 19-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a crash on Sunday morning in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Lam V. Duong was killed in the crash at the intersection of Route 819 and St. Clair Avenue on Sunday, the Westmoreland County Office of the Coroner said in a news release posted to Facebook.\u00a0The 19-year-old man was from Greensburg, according to the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Duong was riding a 2025 Kawasaki Ninja 500 southbound on Route 819 around 8:45 a.m. when he failed to navigate a right-hand curve, leading to him driving off the road and crashing into a ditch and a boulder. He was thrown off his bike in the collision, the coroner said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead at around 9:45 a.m. His cause of death was blunt force injuries due to a single motorcycle collision, the coroner said. The 19-year-old man was wearing a helmet. No other information was released on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police are investigating the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a crash on Sunday morning in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, officials said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6977,73,75,74,5910],"class_list":["post-252506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-fatal-crash","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-westmoreland-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252506","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=252506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}