{"id":13180,"date":"2012-07-07T16:06:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T23:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=13180"},"modified":"2012-07-07T22:56:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T05:56:13","slug":"news-brief-rochester-resident-dies-in-motorcycle-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=13180","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Rochester resident dies in motorcycle accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated at 10:52 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 50-year-old Rochester man was killed in a motorcycle wreck this afternoon in south Thurston County, according to the Washington State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers were called just after 1:15 p.m. to the collision on Southwest Tilley Road near Goddard Road, east of Interstate 5.<\/p>\n<p>The brand new Harley Davidson was northbound on Tilley Road when it struck a deer in the roadway, according to the state patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist has been identified as Mark T. Mercurio.<\/p>\n<p>Mercurio was wearing a helmet, according to the state patrol. His bike sustained an estimated $5,000 damage.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unknown if alcohol or drugs may have been involved, according to the investigating trooper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated at 10:52 p.m. By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter A 50-year-old Rochester man was killed in a motorcycle wreck this afternoon in south Thurston County, according to the Washington State Patrol. Troopers were called just after 1:15 p.m. to the collision on Southwest Tilley Road near Goddard Road, east of Interstate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-13180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13180"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13184,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13180\/revisions\/13184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}