{"id":286432,"date":"2026-09-15T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286432\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:28:12","slug":"motorcyclist-launched-from-his-bike-off-philadelphia-highway-ramp-in-fatal-crash-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286432\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist launched from his bike off Philadelphia highway ramp in fatal crash, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motorcyclist was killed after he was launched from his bike off an elevated highway ramp in Philadelphia Monday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened just after 11 p.m. on the I-95 southbound off-ramp toward I-676. Police say the bike struck a guardrail, and the driver was thrown from an overpass, landing in the area of 2nd and Callowhill streets.<\/p>\n<p>The man was then rushed to a hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified him as 33-year-old Karl Kirschner of Pottstown, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The crash is still under investigation and is being handled by the Pennsylvania State Police because it occurred on an interstate highway.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist was killed after he was launched from his bike off an elevated highway ramp in Philadelphia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,69,71,70,30691],"class_list":["post-286432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-vine-street-expressway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286432","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=286432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}