{"id":294800,"date":"2026-09-27T03:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294800\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T03:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:08:10","slug":"motorcyclist-airlifted-after-crash-at-lake-erie-speedway-event-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294800\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist Airlifted After Crash at Lake Erie Speedway Event | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rescuers raced to Lake Erie Speedway on Saturday afternoon after a motorcyclist was injured during an event known as Motordrome on the Bay.<\/p>\n<p>A 55-year-old motorcycle racer was flown by medical helicopter to UPMC Hamot, arriving at the trauma center around 2:45 p.m. The extent of the rider&#8217;s injuries has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred during the first time Lake Erie Speedway hosted the high-speed antique motorcycle racing event.<\/p>\n<p>According to the event&#8217;s website, vintage motorcycles race around the oval track at full speed without brakes, creating a unique and challenging competition for riders.<\/p>\n<p>Event organizers have not released additional details about the crash. The condition of the injured rider remains unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rescuers raced to Lake Erie Speedway on Saturday afternoon after a motorcyclist was injured during an event known&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,71005,37420,3185,121988,101980],"class_list":["post-294800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-lake-erie-speedway","tag-medical-helicopter","tag-motorcycle-crash","tag-motordrome-on-the-bay","tag-vintage-motorcycles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294800","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=294800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}