{"id":573104,"date":"2026-04-09T03:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573104\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T03:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:45:13","slug":"motorcyclist-killed-in-provo-canyon-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573104\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist killed in Provo Canyon crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 A motorcyclist was killed Wednesday night after he was thrown from his vehicle while traveling eastbound on state Route 189 in Provo Canyon.<\/p>\n<p>Cpl. Silva with the Utah Highway Patrol said the driver was traveling too fast, and was unable to maintain control.<\/p>\n<p>He crashed into the center median barrier at Vivian Park, was thrown from his bike, and landed in the westbound lanes Silva said.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of publication, officials had opened one lane in both directions of state Route 189.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Update: Single lane travel for both directions. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wn8QkeWbv0\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Wn8QkeWbv0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UDOT Traffic (@UDOTTRAFFIC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UDOTTRAFFIC\/status\/2042064984289767530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking story and may be updated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We want to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">Have a story idea or tip? Send it to the KSL NewsRadio team <a href=\"https:\/\/kslnewsradio.com\/breaking-news\/fatal-crash-shuts-down-provo-canyon\/2294220\/mailto:news@ksl.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kslnewsradio.com\/subscribe-to-the-ksl-newsradio-newsletter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/300x250_KSLRADIO_Subscribe.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/830x100_NEWSRadio_Subscribe.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 A motorcyclist was killed Wednesday night after he was thrown from his vehicle while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-573104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573104","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=573104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}