{"id":224711,"date":"2025-06-30T10:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=224711"},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:16:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:16:29","slug":"deadly-motorcycle-crash-on-i-85-in-atlanta-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=224711","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Motorcycle Crash on I-85 in Atlanta: What We Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A motorcyclist lost their life Monday in a collision that brought northeast Atlanta&#8217;s morning commute to a standstill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 <strong>Why It Matters:<\/strong> Morning drive time doubled for many drivers as emergency crews worked for hours at the crash site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd04 <strong>What Happened:<\/strong> A BMW motorcycle rider couldn&#8217;t stop in time when traffic suddenly slowed near the Georgia 400 overpass, Georgia State Patrol investigators report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The crash occurred shortly after 7 a.m. when the motorcycle slammed into the back of a Honda SUV.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The impact threw the rider from their bike, resulting in fatal injuries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udea6 <strong>Traffic Nightmare:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Speeds crawled below 20 mph from Downtown through Buckhead.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Officials issued a Red Alert as multiple lanes remained closed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\ude91 <strong>Response Effort:<\/strong> Multiple emergency teams converged on the scene, including state troopers, firefighters, HERO units, and medical examiner personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities haven&#8217;t released the victim&#8217;s name as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A motorcyclist lost their life Monday in a collision that brought northeast Atlanta&#8217;s morning commute to a standstill. \ud83d\udea8 Why It Matters: Morning drive time doubled for many drivers as emergency crews worked for hours at the crash site. \ud83d\udd04 What Happened: A BMW motorcycle rider couldn&#8217;t stop in time when traffic suddenly slowed near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":224714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"above","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[13026,8545,17296],"class_list":["post-224711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traffic","tag-crash","tag-i-85","tag-motorcycle-crash","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}