{"id":159151,"date":"2026-04-07T05:07:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159151\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:07:29","slug":"one-dead-two-hospitalized-after-wrong-way-crash-in-washington-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159151\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, two hospitalized after wrong-way crash in Washington County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was killed and two people were injured in a wrong-way crash in Donegal Township, Washington County, on Saturday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Washington County Coroner&#8217;s Office, a wrong-way driver headed westbound on Route 40 collided head-on with the driver of an SUV just after 6 p.m. on Saturday. The driver of the SUV and a passenger were both taken to a local hospital with serious injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the wrong-way driver, 41-year-old Daniel Pasqualucci, was pronounced dead at the scene. The 41-year-old man came around a curve in the road, crossed the center line and hit the other driver.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington County coroner says it appears Pasqualucci&#8217;s car was going approximately 80 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unit 1 was traveling eastbound on 40 as the unit was traveling westbound on 40, in two different directions, and as unit 2 was coming around that bend, unit 1 was in the center of the roadway and struck unit 2 head-on,&#8221; Trooper Rocco Gagliardi said on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police are investigating the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our case is working on that happening before and during that crash, and that will be a full report that we give over to the DA&#8217;s office,&#8221; Gagliardi said.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed and two people were injured in a wrong-way crash in Donegal Township, Washington County,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-159151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news","11":"tag-washington-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159151","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=159151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}