{"id":267043,"date":"2026-08-17T19:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267043\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T19:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:32:11","slug":"hearing-continued-in-case-of-hit-and-run-crash-that-killed-conyngham-native-in-philadelphia-hazleton-standard-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267043\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing continued in case of hit-and-run crash that killed Conyngham native in Philadelphia \u2013 Hazleton Standard Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The preliminary hearing for a man accused of hitting and killing a Conyngham man on his motorcycle in Phladelphia has been continued to Oct. 8.<\/p>\n<p>Derek Reid, 48, is accused of killing Hazleton Area graduate and Temple University student Bryce Wolfe in June.<\/p>\n<p>Reid is charged with involuntary manslaughter along with other driving offenses<\/p>\n<p>Reid,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardspeaker.com\/2026\/07\/30\/arrest-made-in-hit-and-run-crash-that-killed-conyngham-native-in-philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> who was arrested July 30<\/a>, also facing charges in connection with the rape of a child in 2021 and will appear in court on those charges Sept. 25.<\/p>\n<p>Wolfe, 20, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardspeaker.com\/2026\/06\/30\/conyngham-man-dragged-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-in-philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was killed in a collision at the intersection of Kelly and Reservoir drives<\/a> around 11:15 p.m. on June 24. Police said the driver of the SUV was traveling eastbound and after realizing a U-turn could not be completed, entered the path of Wolfe traveling westbound on his 2004 Triumph motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the motorcycle struck the SUV, trapping Wolfe underneath.<\/p>\n<p>The driver fled the scene and dragged Wolfe for more than one mile until he became dislodged.<\/p>\n<p>Wolfe was pronounced dead at 4:41 a.m. on June 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The preliminary hearing for a man accused of hitting and killing a Conyngham man on his motorcycle in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[202,139,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-267043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267043","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=267043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}