Motorcyclist in critical condition after crash in West Homestead, Allegheny County<\/p>\n
WEST HOMESTEAD, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n
Allegheny County police are investigating a motorcycle crash in West Homestead that left a man critically injured Monday evening.<\/p>\n
Police said the crash happened just after 5:40 p.m. in the 600 block of West 7th Avenue.<\/p>\n
“Preliminary information shows the victim attempted to do a wheelie when he lost control of the motorcycle and struck a utility pole,” police said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Looking for more news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n The motorcyclist was taken to the hospital in critical condition, police said.<\/p>\n The crash is under investigation by county homicide detectives.<\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist in critical condition after crash in West Homestead, Allegheny County WEST HOMESTEAD, Pa. \u2014 Allegheny County police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[894,13313,2586,347,5993,6111,41741,2092,3185,1973,28,30,29,12049,206,39708,7086,10254,11648],"class_list":["post-281148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-allegheny-county","tag-allegheny-county-police","tag-block","tag-crash","tag-critical-condition","tag-hospital","tag-monday-evening","tag-more-news","tag-motorcycle-crash","tag-motorcyclist","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pole","tag-police","tag-west-7th-avenue","tag-west-homestead","tag-wtae","tag-wtae-youtube-channel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281148","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=281148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}