{"id":274874,"date":"2026-08-29T22:08:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T22:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274874\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T22:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T22:08:54","slug":"i-476-crash-dump-truck-driver-killed-on-pennsylvania-turnpike-identified-as-josh-adens-of-conshohocken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274874\/","title":{"rendered":"I-476 crash: Dump truck driver killed on Pennsylvania Turnpike identified as Josh Adens, of Conshohocken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788041334_799_16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, August 28, 2026 9:45AM<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the dump truck driver who was killed as 28-year-old Josh Adens, of Conshohocken.<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">WHITPAIN TWP,, Pa.  (WPVI) &#8212; The driver of a dump truck who was <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/476-nb-closed-between-mid-county-lansdale-truck-crash-work-zone-northeast-extension-pennsylvania-turnpike\/19743666\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Montgomery County<\/a> has been identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police say 28-year-old Josh Adens, of Conshohocken, died after crashing into the back of a water truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crash happened early Thursday morning in the northbound lanes of the Northeast Extension in Whitpain Township, just north of DeKalb Pike.<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 6 was over a crash on the Northeast Extension, where you could see severe damage to the front of a dump truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities say Adens veered into a work zone and hit the water truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Officials say the 61-year-old operating the water truck was not injured.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, August 28, 2026 9:45AM Police identified the dump truck driver who was killed as 28-year-old Josh Adens,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[115484,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-274874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-115484","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274874","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=274874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}