Driver killed in wrong-way crash on Mon-Fayette Expressway
One person was killed early Tuesday morning following a wrong-way crash on the Mon-Fayette Expressway in Washington County.
Jacob Matthew Huber was driving south on the toll road in Fallowfield Township just north of the interchange with Interstate 70 when a wrong-way driver crashed into his vehicle head-on shortly before 4:30 a.m., Washington County Coroner Timothy Warco said in a press release.
Huber, 24, of Ruffs Dale, was wearing a seatbelt, but was pronounced dead at the scene, the coroner said. The cause and manner of Huber’s death are pending an autopsy.
State police closed the southbound lanes of Route 43 while investigating the crash, and it remained closed for several hours, a Washington County 911 dispatch supervisor said.
Two other people from the other vehicle were flown by medical helicopter to a Pittsburgh hospital for treatment, the dispatcher said. Information on their identities and the severity of their injuries was not immediately released.
Troopers with the state police’s Troop T barracks that patrol Pennsylvania Turnpike toll roads are investigating the crash. Investigators did immediately release information about the crash.
Fallowfield Township volunteer firefighters and medics with Rostraver Ambulance assisted state police at the scene.