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 seat belt, 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.
State police said the wrong-way car was driven by Maciola Newman, 72, of Pickerington, Ohio, while her passenger in the vehicle was 38-year-old Charles E. Newman. Both were wearing seat belts, and both were flown by medical helicopter to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh for treatment for what state police described as serious injuries. It was not immediately know how Newman’s vehicle entered the southbound lanes while traveling north before striking Huber’s car.
Troopers with the state police’s Troop T barracks that patrol Pennsylvania Turnpike toll roads are investigating the crash.
Fallowfield Township volunteer firefighters and medics with Rostraver Ambulance assisted state police at the scene.