{"id":233282,"date":"2026-07-01T23:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233282\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T23:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:17:08","slug":"pennsylvania-trooper-fatally-struck-while-performing-roadside-commercial-vehicle-inspection-on-i-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233282\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania trooper fatally struck while performing roadside commercial vehicle inspection on I-81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) trooper was killed in the line of duty while performing a commercial vehicle inspection on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crash occurred around 7 a.m. on July 1, 2026, on southbound I-81 at mile marker 119 in Cass Township, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A PSP trooper with Troop L\u00a0was performing a roadside commercial vehicle inspection when they were struck by a second commercial vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After hitting the trooper, the second commercial vehicle struck the vehicle being inspected, causing a fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trooper died from injuries sustained in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The commercial vehicle driver who was being inspected was hospitalized, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsitem.com\/news\/local\/psp-trooper-struck-killed-by-commercial-vehicle-on-interstate-81-in-schuylkill-county\/article_545d1fcb-554b-472c-8798-95004667fbd7.html?utm_campaign=blox&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawSyIulleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeJPKpQ2Ge6QxsARfcfdwIQWgi7EQe7aL5JyPGwKM6D8WV1Rmdg4pdG90Y4r4_aem_Z4hCOW2hSVi14t6GiWsFdw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News-Item<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) trooper was killed in the line of duty while performing a commercial vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-233282","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\/233282","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=233282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}