{"id":247160,"date":"2026-07-19T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247160\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T14:08:09","slug":"pennsylvania-state-police-looking-for-help-in-hit-and-run-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247160\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police Looking for Help in Hit-and-Run | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania State Police are asking for the public&#8217;s help in identifying the owners of two pickup trucks that may have been involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash on Interstate 79 last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Pennsylvania State Police\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>According to State Police in Girard, troopers were dispatched around 11:15 p.m. on Saturday, July 11, to the southbound lanes of I-79 near the 176-mile marker for reports of a pedestrian who had been struck in the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe a Ford pickup truck may have hit the pedestrian and then left the scene. Police are trying to identify the owners of two pickup trucks that were seen entering I-79 southbound around the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information that could help identify the vehicles or assist with the investigation is asked to contact Pennsylvania State Police in Girard at 814-774-9611.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, 42-year-old Benjamin Kachick of Lake City, died from blunt force trauma. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police are asking for the public&#8217;s help in identifying the owners of two pickup trucks that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[105701,6977,105702,12056,1729,1021,28,30,29,1224,488,27035],"class_list":["post-247160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-benjamin-kachick","tag-fatal-crash","tag-girard","tag-hit-and-run","tag-interstate-79","tag-investigation","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-pickup-truck","tag-public-assistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247160","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=247160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}