SHESHEQUIN TWP., BRADFORD CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A 20-year-old motorcyclist was killed Friday evening in a crash with a tractor-trailer in Bradford County.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania State Police say the crash happened around 6:31 p.m. Friday, August 28, on Sheshequin Road, south of Goose Hollow Road in Sheshequin Township.<\/p>\n
According to the crash report, 52-year-old Matthew J. Shellenhamer of Lititz was driving a Kenworth tractor-trailer north on Sheshequin Road while 20-year-old Levent K. Van Helden of Towanda was riding a Kawasaki motorcycle south.<\/p>\n
Troopers say Shellenhamer attempted to make a left turn in front of the motorcycle, resulting in a collision.<\/p>\n
Police say the tractor-trailer continued a short distance before coming to a controlled stop facing west on a dirt road off Sheshequin Road. The motorcycle came to an uncontrolled stop in the southbound lane.<\/p>\n
Van Helden was pronounced dead at the scene. State police say he was wearing a motorcycle helmet.<\/p>\n
Shellenhamer was not injured.<\/p>\n
The crash remains under investigation by Pennsylvania State Police in Towanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHESHEQUIN TWP., BRADFORD CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A 20-year-old motorcyclist was killed Friday evening in a crash with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-275468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275468","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=275468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}