One person is dead after a tractor trailer crashed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Westmoreland County early Friday morning.
The driver of a tractor trailer died in an accident on the PA Turnpike by milepost 61. One lane restriction eastbound pic.twitter.com/6RL0yfxFiH
— Lori Houy (@WPXI_Lori) July 7, 2017
The crash at milepost 61 in Penn Township was reported just before 2 a.m.
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The turnpike commission said the truck left the roadway before crashing. The eastbound right lane was blocked as crews worked to remove the wreck.
The commission said the driver, 61-year-old Ralph Baker, of Parma, Ohio, was taken to Forbes Hospital, where he later died.
It was not immediately clear what caused the crash.
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