{"id":119854,"date":"2026-02-21T12:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119854\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:50:11","slug":"head-on-wrong-way-crash-in-fayette-county-leaves-one-man-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119854\/","title":{"rendered":"Head-on, wrong-way crash in Fayette County leaves one man dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a wrong-way crash that left a man dead on Friday afternoon in Fayette County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to troopers, the crash happened around 4 p.m. along Route 982 in Bullskin Township.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a car was going around a curve, it crossed into the oncoming lane and collided head-on with another vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle who was hit was not injured in the collision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the driver of the car who crossed into the oncoming lane died at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was identified by the Fayette County Coroner as 50-year-old David Lancaster of Mount Pleasant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police Troop B is investigating.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a wrong-way crash that left a man dead on Friday afternoon in Fayette&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1540,6977,2298,28,30,29,1224],"class_list":{"0":"post-119854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-car-crash","9":"tag-fatal-crash","10":"tag-fayette-county","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","13":"tag-pennsylvania-news","14":"tag-pennsylvania-state-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}