{"id":186669,"date":"2026-05-07T23:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186669\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:19:10","slug":"driver-killed-after-crashing-head-on-into-tractor-trailer-on-i-70-in-washington-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186669\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed after crashing head-on into tractor-trailer on I-70 in Washington County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver is dead after crashing head-on into a tractor-trailer on Interstate 70 in Washington County on Thursday afternoon, Pennsylvania State Police said.<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT says the crash, which happened around 1:30 p.m., closed westbound I-70 between the Taylorstown and Claysville exits. PennDOT announced around 6:30 p.m. that the road was back open.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to troopers, the investigation shows that a Ford Focus traveling eastbound crossed over the grass median and continued into oncoming traffic. The car crashed head-on with a tractor-trailer that was going westbound towards the state line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said medical staff declared the Ford Focus driver dead at the scene. The tractor-trailer driver was treated for minor injuries at the scene. The victim&#8217;s identity hasn&#8217;t been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said they&#8217;re continuing to investigate the crash with the help of collision analysis and reconstruction specialists and forensic service units.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver is dead after crashing head-on into a tractor-trailer on Interstate 70 in Washington County on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6977,18311,28,30,29,437],"class_list":["post-186669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-fatal-crash","tag-interstate-70","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-washington-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186669","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=186669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}