{"id":269994,"date":"2026-08-22T05:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T05:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269994\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T05:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T05:30:13","slug":"psp-fl-man-killed-in-head-on-crash-on-port-matilda-highway-in-rush-twp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269994\/","title":{"rendered":"PSP: FL man killed in head-on crash on Port Matilda Highway in Rush Twp."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CENTRE COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) \u2014 Pennsylvania State Police have identified a Florida man who was killed Thursday evening in a head-on collision along Port Matilda Highway in Rush Township, Centre County.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say 64-year-old Mark Erwin, of Englewood, Florida, was killed when he reportedly attempted to pass a slower-moving vehicle while traveling westbound along Route 322.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/content\/dam\/copapwp-pagov\/en\/psp\/documents\/pirrs\/rockview-press-releases\/g_rock_21aug2026_1216.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to the crash report<\/a>, police say Erwin&#8217;s minivan collided head-on with pickup truck, which was towing a trailer, driven by a 26-year-old Minnesota man.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Mr. Erwin was pronounced dead on scene while the driver of the pickup truck was taken to Mount Nittany Medical Center with undisclosed injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers note that the driver of the pickup, though he is not believed to be at fault, was also given a blood draw due to suspicion of DUI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CENTRE COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) \u2014 Pennsylvania State Police have identified a Florida man who was killed Thursday evening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-269994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269994","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=269994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}