{"id":229231,"date":"2025-10-16T14:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229231\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:42:11","slug":"man-dead-after-motorcycle-crash-in-adair-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229231\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead after motorcycle crash in Adair, Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ADAIR, Iowa (WOWT) &#8211; A man is dead after a motorcycle crash Thursday morning in western Iowa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">According to a release from the Iowa State Patrol, the crash happened just before 1 a.m. Thursday on westbound Interstate 80 near Adair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An investigation found the driver of the motorcycle, was \u201ctraveling too fast.\u201d He lost control when going on the curve of the Exit 75 off ramp, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver, identified as 20-year-old Devon Ernst, of Adair, went off the roadway and struck a culvert. He was thrown off from impact and declared dead from emergency crews at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the release, he was not wearing protective clothing or a helmet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Get a first alert to breaking news delivered to your inbox. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for First Alert 6 email alerts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WOWT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADAIR, Iowa (WOWT) &#8211; A man is dead after a motorcycle crash Thursday morning in western Iowa. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[122858,128156,26180,16993,4,450,15441,37504,11844,24365,128157,128155,24949,128161,24364,451,46380,103233,6270,21641,6135,29306,3,128158,128159,452,453,128160,23707,43650],"class_list":["post-229231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-20-year-old","tag-adair-man","tag-authorities","tag-breaking","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-crash","tag-curve","tag-dead","tag-deadly-crash","tag-declared-dead","tag-devon-ernst","tag-dies","tag-exit-75","tag-fatal-crash","tag-headlines","tag-interstate-80","tag-investigate","tag-investigation","tag-iowa-state-patrol","tag-man","tag-motorcycle","tag-news","tag-no-helmet","tag-protective-gear","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-westbound-i80","tag-western","tag-western-iowa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}