A 46-year-old man from Carlisle died early Thursday morning following a crash on Interstate 78 in Berks County, according to Pennsylvania State Police and the Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred around 4:45 a.m. on March 19, 2026, on I-78 eastbound near mile marker 34.2 in Windsor Township, just west of Exit 35 (Lenhartsville), state police said.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, a vehicle traveling eastbound struck the rear of another vehicle in the warning area approaching a work zone. The driver of the striking vehicle sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
The Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office identified the victim as John Wayne Boring, 46, of Carlisle. Officials said he was operating a 2020 Ford F-150 when it collided with the rear of a tractor-trailer traveling in the same direction.<\/p>\n
Coroner Matthew J. Stitzel pronounced Boring deceased at 5:48 a.m.<\/p>\n
The cause and manner of death remain under investigation.<\/p>\n
Both vehicles involved in the crash were towed from the scene. Emergency responders from the Hamburg Fire Company and Kempton Fire Company assisted at the scene.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania State Police in Hamburg continue to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 46-year-old man from Carlisle died early Thursday morning following a crash on Interstate 78 in Berks County,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-143350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143350","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=143350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}