{"id":232932,"date":"2026-07-01T16:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232932\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:16:10","slug":"pennsylvania-state-police-trooper-killed-in-line-of-duty-crash-on-interstate-81-in-schuylkill-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232932\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Killed in Line-of-Duty Crash on Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiF-XcpAjjGSHoNba0f3LU-OKzSB5i9_ewPeKCZJQG2bApU2oqBBqoogDi7qOvDcu3j5nTgj-8rWp1E9YmEpViF-Xl6wxmXnyWwDCywmytxNevw-NPBrZXETjwJJp7OZo32YOsIgpjYXmXk\/s2048\/statepolice.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1110\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/statepolice.png\" width=\"640\"\/><\/a>A Pennsylvania State Police Trooper assigned to the Frackville station was killed Wednesday morning after being struck by a passing commercial vehicle while conducting a commercial vehicle safety inspection along Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County.<a name=\"more\"\/><br \/>According to the Pennsylvania State Police, the incident occurred at approximately 7:00 a.m. on Interstate 81 South near Mile Marker 119 in Cass Township.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the Trooper was inspecting a commercial motor vehicle when a passing commercial vehicle struck the Trooper. After the initial impact, the passing truck also collided with the commercial vehicle that was being inspected before catching fire.<\/p>\n<p>The operator of the passing commercial vehicle was transported to a local hospital for treatment. No information on the driver&#8217;s condition has been released.<\/p>\n<p>The Trooper died from injuries sustained in the crash. Pennsylvania State Police said the Trooper&#8217;s identity will be released at a later time, pending appropriate notifications.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday morning, Interstate 81 South remained closed while investigators processed the scene and continued their investigation into the fatal crash.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information will be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania State Police Trooper assigned to the Frackville station was killed Wednesday morning after being struck by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-232932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232932","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=232932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}