{"id":3053,"date":"2019-05-09T15:37:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T19:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2019-05-09T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T19:44:26","slug":"toms-river-teen-dies-in-motorcycle-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2019\/05\/toms-river-teen-dies-in-motorcycle-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Teen Dies in Motorcycle Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_171\" style=\"width: 766px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"size-full wp-image-171\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png\" alt=\"Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)\" width=\"756\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png 756w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-599x420.png 599w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-640x449.png 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-681x477.png 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A motorcycle accident in Toms River has claimed the life of a township teen, police said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred Wednesday at about 8 p.m. near the intersection of Schenks Mill Line Road at Darren Street, said police spokeswoman Jillian Messina.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, Christian Atehortua, 18, was flown by medevac helicopter from Castle Park to Jersey Shore University Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the best efforts of medical personnel, he later succumbed to his injuries,\u201d said Messina.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary investigation found Atehortua was the only person involved in the accident when he lost control and was ejected from his motorcycle. The accident remains under investigation by Traffic Safety Officer Adam Koeppen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2019\/05\/toms-river-teen-dies-in-motorcycle-accident\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A motorcycle accident in Toms River has claimed the life of a township teen, police said Thursday. The accident occurred Wednesday at about 8 p.m. near the intersection of Schenks Mill Line Road at Darren Street, said police spokeswoman Jillian Messina. The driver, Christian Atehortua, 18, was flown by medevac helicopter from Castle Park to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[838,334,11],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-christian-atehortua","tag-motorcycle-accident","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}