{"id":169735,"date":"2026-04-18T23:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169735\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:47:09","slug":"truck-driver-arrested-in-louisiana-after-fatal-i-78-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169735\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck driver arrested in Louisiana after fatal I-78 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The truck driver accused of killing a man on I-78 was arrested in Lousiana on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Ameer Nassar, 25, of Houston, was pulled over by the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff&#8217;s Office around 8:20 a.m., the sheriff&#8217;s office said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WestBatonRougeParishSheriffsOffice\/posts\/pfbid0yC9N94tPXkLY2sgRHxMykFESXHs6feYTdt9YsRo4xGr1u1Sdgn32RVhHveDuvMBQl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook post.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Police say Nassar was driving the same box truck that was involved in the fatal crash. He was turned over to Pennsylvania State Police and later charged in Berks County. <\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred on I-78 East in Bethel Township on April 10. Police said the victim, 33, was parked along the shoulder of the road adjusting the straps of his truck. That&#8217;s when Nassar, driving his box truck in the right lane, struck the man and drove away, according to the state police report. <\/p>\n<p>SEE PREVIOUS COVERAGE | <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/police-investigating-after-truck-driver-kills-pedestrian-on-shoulder-of-i-78-east-fatal-berks-county-bethel-township-tractor-trailer-peterbilt-investigation-troopers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police investigating after truck driver strikes, kills pedestrian on shoulder of I-78 East<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nassar has been charged for an accident involving death or personal injury, among related offenses.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>He posted bail and is now waiting his preliminary hearing, scheduled April 22, according to his online court docket. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The truck driver accused of killing a man on I-78 was arrested in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-169735","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\/169735","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=169735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}