{"id":187642,"date":"2026-05-08T23:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187642\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:33:08","slug":"pennsylvania-mom-wins-1-million-on-lottery-ticket-after-flat-tire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187642\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania mom wins $1 million on lottery ticket after flat tire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA lucky winner is celebrating Mother’s Day early with a $1 million prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket in Westmoreland County.The Pennsylvania Lottery said Beth Dudley bought the ticket at Crabtree Gas & Go at the Sunoco gas station on Roosevelt Way, just off Route 119 in Salem Township.Before buying that ticket, the 32-year-old mother of two said she had gotten a flat tire after dropping her toddler off at daycare.”I stopped over here, grabbed a drink and a ticket, and won a million dollars,” Dudley said. “I had to confirm it four times before I believed it.”Lottery officials held a ceremony at the store on Friday to recognize the big win.”I’m going to get a new car,” Dudley said. “But I’m going to invest, so a lot of it, I won’t see. We’re just going to grow.”The lottery said the store will receive a $5,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket in the Win Win Win scratch-off game.The game costs $10 to play, and it offers top prizes of $1 million.Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tSALEM TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

A lucky winner is celebrating Mother’s Day early with a $1 million prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket in Westmoreland County.<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania Lottery said Beth Dudley bought the ticket at Crabtree Gas & Go at the Sunoco gas station on Roosevelt Way, just off Route 119 in Salem Township.<\/p>\n

Before buying that ticket, the 32-year-old mother of two said she had gotten a flat tire after dropping her toddler off at daycare.<\/p>\n

\t\t\"Beth<\/p>\n

“I stopped over here, grabbed a drink and a ticket, and won a million dollars,” Dudley said. “I had to confirm it four times before I believed it.”<\/p>\n

Lottery officials held a ceremony at the store on Friday to recognize the big win.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to get a new car,” Dudley said. “But I’m going to invest, so a lot of it, I won’t see. We’re just going to grow.”<\/p>\n

\t\t\"Beth<\/p>\n

The lottery said the store will receive a $5,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket in the Win Win Win scratch-off game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The game costs $10 to play, and it offers top prizes of $1 million.<\/p>\n

Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lucky winner is celebrating Mother’s Day early with a $1 million prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83690,83691,22843,2085,2080,70697,14119,139,28,30,2078,29,70701,8637,3792,79847,5607,13176,12134,12145,16890,79849,1621,20272,5910,79848],"class_list":["post-187642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-beth-dudley","tag-crabtree-gas","tag-flat-tire","tag-lottery-official","tag-lottery-ticket","tag-lucky-winner","tag-mother","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-lottery","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pittsburghthe-pennsylvania-lottery","tag-previous-video","tag-prize","tag-roosevelt-way","tag-route","tag-salem-township","tag-scratch-off-ticket","tag-scratch-off","tag-store","tag-sunoco-gas-station","tag-ticket","tag-upmc-hospital","tag-westmoreland-county","tag-win-win-win-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187642","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=187642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}