{"id":249739,"date":"2026-07-22T21:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249739\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:44:07","slug":"man-killed-in-parkway-north-crash-involving-wrong-way-tractor-trailer-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249739\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in Parkway North crash involving wrong-way tractor-trailer identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa.  \u2014 Pennsylvania State Police have identified the person killed Tuesday in a crash involving a wrong-way tractor-trailer on the Parkway North. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Investigators say the crash happened around 1:45 p.m. when a tractor-trailer lost control, entered the median, then traveled through the guiderail and began driving south in the northbound lanes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/crash-closes-northbound-i-279-outside-pittsburgh\/VU33FTTJIJHGPH5WUYENMM2CDU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/crash-closes-northbound-i-279-outside-pittsburgh\/VU33FTTJIJHGPH5WUYENMM2CDU\/\">Tractor-trailer crosses Parkway North median, hits SUV; 1 dead<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The truck hit a Lincoln SUV, killing the driver. That driver has been identified as Joseph Sasso, 54. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The operator of the truck, PSP says, is a 70-year-old man. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/photos-drone-11\/DB5JD7SPSJFHZONUBDOZAXK23M\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/photos-drone-11\/DB5JD7SPSJFHZONUBDOZAXK23M\/\" target=\"_blank\">SEE PHOTOS FROM THE SCENE<\/a>&lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 Pennsylvania State Police have identified the person killed Tuesday in a crash involving a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[869,2465,3824,50117,106800,4932,861,139,859,47185,73,75,74,106801,3823,12371,420,860],"class_list":["post-249739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-channel_11","tag-channel_11_news","tag-gordon","tag-gordon_leshch","tag-joseph_sasso","tag-lisa","tag-lisa_sylvester","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-parkway_north","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-sasso","tag-susan","tag-susan_copen","tag-video","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249739","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=249739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}