Officials have identified an Allentown man who died early Thursday when he was hit by a vehicle on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension in Carbon County.
Luis A. Carlo, 32, was attending to a disabled vehicle on the side of the road on Interstate 476 northbound when he was hit by a passing vehicle, according to the Carbon County Coroner’s office. The crash happened about 3:20 a.m. at mile marker 76 in Franklin Township.
Carlo was pronounced dead at the scene about an hour later.
His cause of death was multiple blunt-force trauma, with the manner accidental.
State police and the Carbon County District Attorney’s office are investigating the crash.