{"id":88217,"date":"2026-01-16T05:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/88217\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:38:10","slug":"erie-resident-dies-in-a-multi-vehicle-i-79-accident-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/88217\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Resident Dies in a Multi-Vehicle I-79 Accident | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ENN Breaking News.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>New details have been released following a deadly multi-vehicle crash on Interstate I-79 in Mercer County.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mercer County Coroner John Libonati, a 22-year-old Erie resident died after suffering blunt force trauma to the head and chest. The death has been ruled accidental.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation&#8217;s 511PA website, the crash happened on I-79 northbound just over one mile north of exit 122 in Jackson Township.<\/p>\n<p>Sources tell us the victim was traveling back to Slippery Rock University, where he was a student, at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation by Pennsylvania State Police.<\/p>\n<p>NBC affiliate WFMJ in Youngstown, Ohio reported the crash closed roadways going in both directions between the I-80 interchange and Exit 130 for a number of hours. PSP says the roadways have since reopened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Pennsylvania State Police is investigating\u00a0what caused the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Until the family has been notified, the name of the individual involved will not be released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New details have been released following a deadly multi-vehicle crash on Interstate I-79 in Mercer County. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,296],"class_list":{"0":"post-88217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news","11":"tag-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88217","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=88217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}