Pennsylvania man dead after crash on highway in Clinton County
A Pennsylvania man died Wednesday when his SUV slammed into a stopped truck on a highway just outside of eastern Centre County.
Joshua A. Lahr, 19, of Northumberland County, crashed a 2011 Subaru Forester into a commercial truck about 8:35 a.m. Wednesday on state Route 64 in Clinton County, state police at Lamar wrote in a crash report.
The truck was stopped in the northbound lane as the driver prepared to turn left into the TruGreen Lawn Care parking lot at 5967 Nittany Valley Drive, police wrote.
Lahr was also driving northbound at an unknown speed and crashed into the truck despite “evasive maneuvers,” police wrote. The driver of the truck was not injured.
A section of the highway was closed from about 8:40 a.m. until 10:40 a.m. Wednesday between Pilot Flying J and Peach Orchard Road, according to the state Department of Transportation’s real-time travel information service.
The travel center sits just off an exit of Interstate 80 and is minutes from the Centre County border. Walker Township Fire Co. was among the agencies that assisted.
The amount of fatal crashes in Pennsylvania has largely remained unchanged in the past decade, state Department of Transportation data showed. There were 1,132 deadly crashes in 2023, the most recent year for which data is available.