{"id":255961,"date":"2026-07-31T01:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255961\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T01:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:33:09","slug":"18-year-old-killed-4-other-teens-injured-in-horrific-crash-with-tractor-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255961\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old killed, 4 other teens injured in horrific crash with tractor-trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old girl was killed and four teenage boys between the ages of 14 and 19 were injured in a horrific crash involving a tractor-trailer in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alexandria Womer was killed in the two-vehicle crash on Wednesday night on Burma Road in Blythe Township, according to a report from Pennsylvania State Police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Womer was one of four passengers in a Chevrolet Malibu driven by a 19-year-old. The state police report said the Malibu was headed westbound on Burma Road, north of Firetower Road, when the driver lost control while navigating a left-hand curve.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Malibu, according to the report, rotated at a 90-degree angle and into the lane of oncoming traffic. The driver of a Kenworth tractor-trailer then smashed into the front passenger side of the Malibu. Both vehicles came to rest in the eastbound lane of Burma Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Womer was in the front passenger seat wearing a seat belt, authorities said. The 18-year-old from Pottsville was pronounced dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old Malibu driver and two passengers, ages 16 and 17, suffered suspected serious injuries, according to state police, while a 14-year-old passenger suffered a suspected minor injury. The exact nature of their injuries was not released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately known if the tractor-trailer driver was injured. State police are investigating the crash. No other information was released in the report from state police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old girl was killed and four teenage boys between the ages of 14 and 19 were injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6977,28,30,29,33996],"class_list":["post-255961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-fatal-crash","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-tractor-trailer-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255961","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=255961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}