{"id":321659,"date":"2026-11-05T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321659\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:02:09","slug":"2-killed-in-fiery-crash-along-the-pennsylvania-turnpike-in-westmoreland-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321659\/","title":{"rendered":"2 killed in fiery crash along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Westmoreland County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 people were killed in a fiery crash along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Westmoreland County on Wednesday. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Westmoreland County Coroner John Ackerman said that two people died following a single vehicle crash along the side of the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Tuesday evening in Hempfield Township.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened just before 5 p.m. near the Rt. 136 overpass. The coroner said that a passing driver reported the crash and that the vehicle had caught fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were able to put out the flames, discovering that the two people inside the vehicle had died, the coroner said. Their identities were not released.<\/p>\n<p>An aerial view from the KDKA Drone Team appears to show that a vehicle crashed from above the Turnpike along Rt. 136. It&#8217;s unclear what led up to the crash at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The coroner said that the process of identifying the individuals is ongoing and that additional information will be released at a later time.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police troopers are also investigating the deadly crash.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 people were killed in a fiery crash along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Westmoreland County on Wednesday. \u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6977,28,30,29,1224,4696,5910],"class_list":["post-321659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-fatal-crash","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-pennsylvania-turnpike","tag-westmoreland-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321659","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=321659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}