{"id":201353,"date":"2026-05-24T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201353\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:01:08","slug":"man-identified-in-fatal-crash-on-i-81-in-hazle-twp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201353\/","title":{"rendered":"Man identified in fatal crash on I-81 in Hazle Twp."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 58-year-old Berks County man has been identified as the victim in a fatal crash Friday morning on Interstate 81.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police said Jesus Montell Rincon, of Clayton, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police said\u00a0a semi-truck driven by Rincon was disabled on the side of the road at mile marker 140.3 northbound in Hazle Twp. at 6:41 a.m. on Friday.\u00a0Rincon was outside the vehicle between its cab and the roadway when a Toyota Camry traveling north struck him.<\/p>\n<p>State police are continuing to investigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 58-year-old Berks County man has been identified as the victim in a fatal crash Friday morning on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[349,4434,182,803,28,30,29,802],"class_list":["post-201353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-berks-county","tag-hazle-township","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-top-stories-cvc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201353","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=201353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}