DURYEA, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Police are investigating a fatal one-vehicle crash that claimed the life of a driver late Saturday night in Duryea.<\/p>\n
According to the Duryea Borough Police Department, officers were dispatched around 11 p.m. July 4 to the Falling Springs area in the Narrows section of Coxton Road after receiving multiple reports of a vehicle with heavy front-end damage stopped in the middle of the roadway.<\/p>\n
When officers, firefighters and EMS crews arrived, they found an unresponsive man in the driver’s seat. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
The Luzerne County Coroner’s Office responded to assist with the investigation.<\/p>\n
Police said the preliminary investigation indicates speed appears to have been a contributing factor in the crash.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing by the Duryea Borough Police Department and the Luzerne County Coroner’s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DURYEA, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Police are investigating a fatal one-vehicle crash that claimed the life of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-236011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236011","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=236011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}