{"id":274916,"date":"2026-08-29T23:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274916\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T23:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:44:07","slug":"family-of-four-killed-in-susquehanna-county-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274916\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of four killed in Susquehanna County crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GIBSON TOWNSHIP, SUSQUEHANNA CO. (WOLF \u2014 A family of four from Tunkhannock, including two children, was killed in a crash Saturday morning in Susquehanna County.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police said troopers were called around 10:16 a.m. to the area of 1365 Rock Mountain Drive in Gibson Township for a report of a single-vehicle crash.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers and other first responders found a sedan about 60 feet down a steep embankment. All four people inside the vehicle were pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>State police identified the adults as 45-year-old Peter Thatcher and 45-year-old Sandra Thatcher, both of Tunkhannock. Their 11-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter were also killed. Police did not release the children&#8217;s names.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple fire and EMS crews responded to the scene along with the Susquehanna County Coroner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not said what caused the vehicle to leave the roadway. The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the crash is asked to contact Pennsylvania State Police at Gibson at 570-465-3154.<\/p>\n<p>Trooper Stephen Florey is the lead investigator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GIBSON TOWNSHIP, SUSQUEHANNA CO. (WOLF \u2014 A family of four from Tunkhannock, including two children, was killed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-274916","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\/274916","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=274916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}