{"id":262352,"date":"2026-08-10T01:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262352\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T01:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:56:13","slug":"driver-killed-after-tanker-truck-and-tractor-trailer-crash-in-pa-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262352\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed after tanker truck and tractor-trailer crash in Pa. \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was killed when a tractor trailer and tanker truck crashed on Friday afternoon, according to the Lehigh County Coroner&#8217;s Office. <\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 3:35 p.m. on Aug. 7 near State Route 309 and Gun Club Road in Lynn Township, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old driver of the tanker truck died after crashing into a tractor-trailer, officials reported. No one else was hurt in the crash. <\/p>\n<p>An autopsy is scheduled for Monday, Aug. 10 to confirm the cause of death for the tanker truck driver. <\/p>\n<p>The tanker truck driver was from Tamaqua Borough in Schuylkill County and his identity will not be released yet as officials work to inform his family. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed when a tractor trailer and tanker truck crashed on Friday afternoon, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433,28],"class_list":["post-262352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262352","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=262352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}