{"id":248712,"date":"2026-07-21T19:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248712\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:51:08","slug":"suv-driver-killed-in-crash-after-tractor-trailer-crosses-median-on-i-279-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248712\/","title":{"rendered":"SUV driver killed in crash after tractor-trailer crosses median on I-279, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person was killed after a tractor-trailer crossed the median on Interstate 279 and crashed into an SUV on Tuesday, Pennsylvania State Police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Troopers said the tractor-trailer driver lost control on southbound I-279, crossed the median and guide rail, then hit a Lincoln Navigator that was driving northbound. The driver of the SUV was confirmed dead at the scene by medical staff, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/screenshot-2026-07-21-150244.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-07-21-150244.png \" height=\"342\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A person was killed after a tractor-trailer crossed the median on Interstate 279 and crashed into an SUV on Tuesday, Pennsylvania State Police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                (Photo: KDKA)<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT said northbound I-279 is closed between the Bellevue\/West View and Camp Horne Road interchanges. Drivers are told to use alternate routes. Officials didn&#8217;t give a timeline for when the road will reopen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also because of the crash, the I-579 HOV lanes will be closed in the outbound direction until the directional switch is made for the morning rush hour, PennDOT said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No other information was immediately released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person was killed after a tractor-trailer crossed the median on Interstate 279 and crashed into an SUV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6977,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-248712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-fatal-crash","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248712","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=248712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}