{"id":15528,"date":"2013-05-02T09:13:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T13:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=15528"},"modified":"2013-05-03T07:49:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T11:49:36","slug":"27-year-old-motorcyclist-dies-in-2-vehicle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=15528","title":{"rendered":"27-year-old motorcyclist dies in 2-vehicle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

State police said collision apparently caused when another driver turned in front of him<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Updated at 11:50 to include firefighting affiliations<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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State police from the Embreeville barracks responded to a fatal accident in West Bradford Township Wednesday night.<\/p><\/div>\n

State police are investigating a two-vehicle fatal crash in West Bradford Township at 8:25 p.m. Wednesday night that claimed the life of a 27-year-old motorcyclist and volunteer firefighter.<\/p>\n

Police said Robert D. Miller of West Chester was traveling west on Strasburg Road, east of Lucky Hill Road, on a Honda motorcycle, when an eastbound 2000 Ford Taurus driven by Hope M. Merkert, 51, of West Chester, attempted to turn left into a driveway, colliding with the motorcycle, police said.<\/p>\n

The impact threw Miller, who was not wearing a seatbelt, from the vehicle, police said. He was flown by Pennstar to Paoli Hospital, where he died of his injuries this morning at 3:50 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n

Miller served as a trustee and volunteer for the Good Will Fire Company in West Chester and as a captain for the West Bradford Fire Company, according to the web sites for both organizations.<\/p>\n

Both vehicles had to be towed from the scene, police said. Strasburg Road was closed near the accident scene earlier this morning so that crash reconstruction experts from Troop J could continue their investigation, police said. Troopers \u00a0from the Embreeville barracks received assistance at the scene from the West Bradford fire department and Good Fellowship emergency medical services, police said.<\/p>\n

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State police said collision apparently caused when another driver turned in front of him Updated at 11:50 to include firefighting affiliations State police are investigating a two-vehicle fatal crash in West Bradford Township at 8:25 p.m. Wednesday night that claimed the life of a 27-year-old motorcyclist and volunteer firefighter. Police said Robert D. Miller of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}