A 30-year-old Pittsburgh man was struck and killed by a tractor trailer while walking along the westbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Beaver County early Wednesday, state police in Gibsonia said.
Devin A. Glace was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash by the Beaver County Coroner’s office, said Trooper Christopher Hoover.
The crash occurred near milepost 20 in New Sewickley Township at 2:56 a.m., Hoover said.
The fatal crash closed the turnpike for five hours until 7:45 a.m. as the westbound lanes were closed for the state police accident reconstruction team. Traffic was detoured between the Cranberry and New Castle interchanges.
Hoover reported that evidence indicates Glace was walking in the right westbound lane when he was struck by a tractor trailer driven by a 52-year-old driver from Niles, Ohio.
Troopers are investigating why Glace was walking along the toll road.
“We don’t know at this point why he was walking along the road,” Cpl. Michael Brandtonies of Troop T in Highspire, Dauphin County, said.
Hoover said that after initially being struck, Glace was hit by two more westbound tractor trailer drivers. He said the first and second tractor trailer drivers pulled over at the scene, but the third tractor trailer continued driving west.
Neither of the two truckers who stopped at the scene were hurt, Hoover reported.
Hoover said the third tractor trailer was described as as a Peterbilt truck hauling a long wood trailer with grain on top. Anyone with information on the third truck is asked to call state police at the Gibsonia station at 724-443-5901.
Troopers said the eastbound lanes of the turnpike were not impacted by the crash.
