{"id":241221,"date":"2026-07-11T21:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241221\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T21:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T21:36:09","slug":"3-killed-in-head-on-crash-after-wrong-way-driver-speeds-past-troopers-on-i-76-psp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241221\/","title":{"rendered":"3 killed in head-on crash after wrong-way driver speeds past troopers on I-76: PSP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pa_state_police.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; Three people were killed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wrong-way crash<\/a> on Interstate 76 on Saturday, according to state police.<\/p>\n<p>   Deadly wrong-way crash <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The crash happened shortly before 5 a.m. on Saturday, near mile marker 330 in <a href=\"https:\/\/fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/montgomery-county\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lower Merion Township<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">State police officers said that they saw a white Ford pickup truck driving east in the westbound lanes, towards officers. Officials tried to pull the driver over, but the driver sped on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">SUGGESTED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/news\/police-dive-team-searches-schuylkill-river-vehicle-along-kelly-drive\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Car plunges into Schuylkill River near Kelly Drive; bystanders jump in to help: police<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Shortly after that is when the pickup crashed into two other cars head-on.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators said that three people were killed in the crash, but did not say if the pickup driver was one of them.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">None of the victims were identified.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Pennsylvania State Police is investigating the crash, and asked anyone with information to call troopers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/news\/tel:6105841250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">610-584-1250<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story is from the Pennsylvania State Police.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/montgomery-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montgomery County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; Three people were killed in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 76 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[592,183,185,184,186,200,139,539,593],"class_list":["post-241221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-montgomery-county","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241221","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=241221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}