{"id":321747,"date":"2026-11-05T15:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T15:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321747\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T15:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T15:18:12","slug":"2-killed-after-car-crashes-off-bridge-on-pennsylvania-turnpike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321747\/","title":{"rendered":"2 killed after car crashes off bridge on Pennsylvania Turnpike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793891892_448_291fc991-ae68-4748-bef5-4153cca7fc19_1791998326.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Ethan Rowinski\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ARONA, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Two people have died after a vehicle went off a bridge on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Wednesday, according to Westmoreland dispatchers. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The Westmoreland County Coroner&#8217;s Office says they were called to the crash around 4:51 p.m. on Interstate 76  near Arona and the Route 136 overpass, in Hempfield Township.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Officials say a passing driver called dispatchers after seeing the crash and the intense flames that followed.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">When crews extinguished the flames they discovered two people who had died. Those two people have not been identified. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Pennsylvania State Police are investigating the crash. The cause and manner of death for the two people who were killed are pending. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">This story is developing. Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4 is working to learn the latest information and will bring it to you as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARONA, Pa. \u2014 Two people have died after a vehicle went off a bridge on the Pennsylvania Turnpike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130525,1874,900,115022,21450,1540,17883,6439,23998,28,30,29,73,5608,5607,3839,50546,6967,130526,5910,130527,130528],"class_list":["post-321747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-136-overpass","tag-accident","tag-action-news","tag-arona","tag-bridge","tag-car-crash","tag-late-information","tag-official","tag-overpass","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-place","tag-route","tag-story","tag-two-injured","tag-vehicle","tag-vehicle-over-bridge","tag-westmoreland-county","tag-westmoreland-county-crash","tag-westmoreland-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321747","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=321747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}