{"id":127122,"date":"2026-03-02T03:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127122\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T03:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:14:09","slug":"1-dead-after-train-hits-car-in-northumberland-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127122\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead after train hits car in Northumberland County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA man is dead after a crash between a car and a train on Sunday afternoon. Pennsylvania State Police were called to the scene of a reported crash between a car and a train around 12:40 p.m. on Railroad Street and Spruce Street in Herndon Borough. They found the driver of a Subaru Forester had attempted to enter through the railroad crossing when a Norfolk Southern train struck the vehicle. State police have identified the victim as 74-year-old Darwin Whitmer of Dalmatia. The injuries he received in the crash were deadly, according to state police. Whitmer was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tNORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A man is dead after a crash between a car and a train on Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police were called to the scene of a reported crash between a car and a train around 12:40 p.m. on Railroad Street and Spruce Street in Herndon Borough. <\/p>\n<p>They found the driver of a Subaru Forester had attempted to enter through the railroad crossing when a Norfolk Southern train struck the vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>State police have identified the victim as 74-year-old Darwin Whitmer of Dalmatia. <\/p>\n<p>The injuries he received in the crash were deadly, according to state police. <\/p>\n<p>Whitmer was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is dead after a crash between a car and a train on Sunday afternoon. Pennsylvania State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2663,347,59287,59284,59281,1399,59282,19301,4800,28,30,29,1224,59286,59285,59288,17644,7087,59283,6967],"class_list":["post-127122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-car","tag-crash","tag-dalmatia","tag-darwin-whitmer","tag-herndon-borough","tag-man","tag-norfolk-southern-train","tag-northumberland-county","tag-p-m","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-railroad-street","tag-spruce-street","tag-subaru-forester","tag-sunday-afternoon","tag-train","tag-train-crash","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127122","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=127122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}