{"id":257996,"date":"2026-08-02T23:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257996\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T23:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:49:14","slug":"three-people-killed-in-two-crashes-in-franklin-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257996\/","title":{"rendered":"Three people killed in two crashes in Franklin County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people killed in two crashes in Franklin County<\/p>\n<p>State police in Franklin County reported two separate crashes yesterday that left three people dead and two others hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/1e0f470b-2878-4f5b-8a03-9eab8aef73a1\" aria-label=\"Sarah Metts profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1e0f470b-2878-4f5b-8a03-9eab8aef73a1_1728152104.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Sarah Metts\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">State police in Franklin County said three people were killed in two separate crashes yesterday.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">In Greene Township, troopers said 61-year-old Karl Hafner of Fayetteville was killed when a car crossed the double yellow lines on Mount Pleasant Road and hit him. The other driver was flown to the hospital.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">In Saint Thomas Township, Ross DeShong and Paula Young were killed when a car pulled out in front of their motorcycle on Lincoln Way West at the intersection of Hade Road. The driver of the car was also taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people killed in two crashes in Franklin County State police in Franklin County reported two separate crashes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[235,1243,2807,21295,10454,28,30,29,523,35038,59707],"class_list":["post-257996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-county","tag-crashes","tag-franklin","tag-hospitalized","tag-killed","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-people","tag-three","tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257996","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=257996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}