Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Pennsylvania man is facing assault charges after police said he stabbed another driver during a road rage incident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. This week, Robert Palscak, from Westmoreland County, allegedly followed the victim for about 10 miles from the Pittsburgh interchange to Irwin. After both drivers exited the turnpike and stopped in traffic, police said Palscak got out of his vehicle with a knife, punched the victim, and stabbed him near the left ear. The victim’s condition has not been released.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tIRWIN, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
A Pennsylvania man is facing assault charges after police said he stabbed another driver during a road rage incident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. <\/p>\n
This week, Robert Palscak, from Westmoreland County, allegedly followed the victim for about 10 miles from the Pittsburgh interchange to Irwin. <\/p>\n
After both drivers exited the turnpike and stopped in traffic, police said Palscak got out of his vehicle with a knife, punched the victim, and stabbed him near the left ear. <\/p>\n
The victim’s condition has not been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIGHT THING AND TURNED THEMSELVES IN. PENNSYLVANIA MAN IS FACING ASSAULT CHARGES AFTER POLICE SAY HE STABBED ANOTHER…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[73566,73569,1245,24125,73570,10397,28,30,1051,29,4696,73568,206,73565,1704,73567,890,5865,5910,13311],"class_list":{"0":"post-162837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-accused-of-stabbing-driver","9":"tag-assault-charge","10":"tag-driver","11":"tag-irwin","12":"tag-left-ear","13":"tag-pa-turnpike","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","16":"tag-pennsylvania-man","17":"tag-pennsylvania-news","18":"tag-pennsylvania-turnpike","19":"tag-pittsburgh-interchange","20":"tag-police","21":"tag-robert-palscak","22":"tag-traffic","23":"tag-turnpike-road-rage-incident","24":"tag-victim","25":"tag-week","26":"tag-westmoreland-county","27":"tag-westmoreland-county-man"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162837","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=162837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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