A Pennsylvania State Police trooper was killed on Wednesday morning when, officials said, they were struck while doing a vehicle safety inspection along I-81 in Schuylkill County. <\/p>\n
According to police, the incident happened at about 7 a.m., when the trooper — who officials did not immediately share further identifying information on — was conducting a safety inspection of a commercial vehicle along the southbound side of I-81 in Cass Township.<\/p>\n
As the trooper was conducting the inspection, officials said, they were struck by a second commercial vehicle. <\/p>\n
Also, officials said, after striking the trooper, the commercial vehicle continued on the hit the vehicle that the trooper was inspecting. <\/p>\n
This collision ignited a fire that, police said, erupted in the commercial vehicle that was being inspected. <\/p>\n
The driver of that vehicle suffered injuries in this incident and has been hospitalized, according to police.<\/p>\n
Though, police did not immediately detail the severity of this individual’s injuries. <\/p>\n
Following the crash, police said the trooper that was struck died of his injuries. <\/p>\n
Police have closed portions of I-81 South as the incident remained under investigation on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
Officials are expected to share more information on this incident on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
NBC10 is working to learn more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania State Police trooper was killed on Wednesday morning when, officials said, they were struck while doing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-232975","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\/232975","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=232975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}