At approximately 7:00 a.m., 54-year-old Gregory A. Prest was southbound on I-99 in a semi-truck, when he departed the road to left, crossing over the median and colliding head-on with an embankment.
Solt was driving a pickup truck on Hublers Ridge Road at about 2:30 a.m. when he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a tree. The wreck left him trapped in the vehicle, and after he was freed he was taken to the hospital via helicopter with injuries described as moderate.
At around 10:20am, a dump truck and semi-truck collided and the whole wreck burst into flames. Two bystanders helped rescue the victims from fiery wreckage, though despite their best efforts the driver of the semi-truck was killed and the driver of the dump truck had to be airlifted to a hospital.
Joshua Mejia was driving a Penn Stater Hotel van when he crashed into a concrete barrier. The van burst into flames, and he was pronounced dead at a hospital.
State police said a woman and her 2-year-old son died when their car collided head-on with a pickup truck that was hauling a trailer Thursday in South Huntingdon Township.
The deadly crash on Route 981 happened just before 7 a.m., according to state police.
A chain-reaction crash involving an estimated 50 vehicles continued to close the westbound lanes of Interstate 80 in western Pennsylvania, though eastbound lanes in the same area have reopened.
Police are looking for leads in the whereabouts of a tractor-trailer that apparently struck a PPL Electric Utilities pole in Susquehanna Township earlier Friday, then fled the scene.