{"id":383686,"date":"2025-11-16T20:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/383686\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T20:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:17:13","slug":"deadly-motorcycle-crash-impacts-chicago-traffic-on-north-western-avenue-between-balmoral-and-catalpa-for-hours-police-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/383686\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly motorcycle crash impacts Chicago traffic on North Western Avenue between Balmoral and Catalpa for hours: police department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WLS logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/origin-wls.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, November 16, 2025 4:35PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Deadly motorcycle crash shuts down North Side road for hours: CPD\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Police Department said a deadly motorcycle crash happened on Western Avenue between Balmoral and Catalpa early Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; A North Side road was shut down for hours after a deadly motorcycle crash early Sunday morning, Chicago police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said the crash happened on North Western Avenue between West Balmoral and West Catalpa avenues just after 3:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A 51-year-old man was driving his motorcycle southbound when he lost control and crashed, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He was transported to St. Francis Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His identity was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No one else was hurt, and CPD&#8217;s Major Accidents Unit is investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Police did not immediately provide further information about the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Sunday, November 16, 2025 4:35PM The Chicago Police Department said a deadly motorcycle crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":383687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[183310,960,5463,5462,5464,8755,5386,1818,183309,55265,33337],"class_list":{"0":"post-383686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-183310","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-breaking-news","11":"tag-chicago-news","12":"tag-chicago-police","13":"tag-chicago-traffic","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-illinois","16":"tag-motorcycle-accident","17":"tag-motorcycle-crash","18":"tag-western-avenue"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115561224292771537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}