{"id":572690,"date":"2026-04-08T23:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572690\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:03:09","slug":"1-dead-after-crash-on-rt-28-in-boggs-armstrong-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572690\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead after crash on Rt. 28 in Boggs, Armstrong County"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOne person has died following a serious crash along Route 28 in Boggs Township, Armstrong County, on Wednesday afternoon. PennDOT officials said in a release that Route 28\/66 remains closed between the intersections of Route 1027 and Route 1018, and at the intersection with Hoover Road due to a crash.Sky 4, Pittsburgh’s only news chopper, was over the scene, where a tanker truck could be seen over a hillside along the road. Multiple first responders were on the scene, working to clear the area. The Armstrong County coroner confirmed to Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 that one person has died as a result of the crash. PennDOT officials said vehicles will be detoured. For those traveling southbound on Route 28\/66, drivers are encouraged to take Route 1016 (Calhoun School Road) to Belnap to State Route 1018 to return to Route 28. Those traveling northbound will reverse the above directions. Commercial vehicles should detour using Route 861 out of New Bethlehem to Route 68 in Rimersburg to Route 422 in Butler, then back to Route 28.Drivers are encouraged to avoid the area. This is a developing story. Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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One person has died following a serious crash along Route 28 in Boggs Township, Armstrong County, on Wednesday afternoon. <\/p>\n

PennDOT officials said in a release that Route 28\/66 remains closed between the intersections of Route 1027 and Route 1018, and at the intersection with Hoover Road due to a crash.<\/p>\n

Sky 4, Pittsburgh’s only news chopper, was over the scene, where a tanker truck could be seen over a hillside along the road. Multiple first responders were on the scene, working to clear the area. <\/p>\n

The Armstrong County coroner confirmed to Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 that one person has died as a result of the crash. <\/p>\n

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PennDOT officials said vehicles will be detoured. <\/p>\n

For those traveling southbound on Route 28\/66, drivers are encouraged to take Route 1016 (Calhoun School Road) to Belnap to State Route 1018 to return to Route 28. <\/p>\n

Those traveling northbound will reverse the above directions. <\/p>\n

Commercial vehicles should detour using Route 861 out of New Bethlehem to Route 68 in Rimersburg to Route 422 in Butler, then back to Route 28.<\/p>\n

Drivers are encouraged to avoid the area. <\/p>\n

This is a developing story. <\/p>\n

Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died following a serious crash along Route 28 in Boggs Township, Armstrong County, on Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15684,41515,69931,4,450,15441,5495,451,249994,45880,3,14797,15615,184335,7383,15681,112293,15686,233951,452,453,1977,140276],"class_list":{"0":"post-572690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-action-news","9":"tag-allegheny-county","10":"tag-armstrong-county","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breakingnews","13":"tag-crash","14":"tag-direction","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-kittanning","17":"tag-multiple-first-responder","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-part","20":"tag-penndot","21":"tag-penndot-official","22":"tag-pittsburgh","23":"tag-route","24":"tag-route-28","25":"tag-scene","26":"tag-tanker-truck","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topstories","29":"tag-video","30":"tag-wednesday-evening"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}