NEW STANTON, Pa. — A tractor-trailer driver died Tuesday afternoon in a single-vehicle accident at the New Stanton service plaza on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Authorities said the accident happened just after 2 p.m. at the plaza along the westbound lanes of the turnpike, just east of the New Stanton interchange in Hempfield Township.
For an unknown reason, the vehicle traveled over a curb in the plaza parking lot, through a guiderail and partially down an embankment.
Investigators said it doesn’t appear weather or road conditions were a factor in the crash.
Officials said 43-year-old Arvind Bains was taken to Excela Frick Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The cause and manner of death will be pending autopsy results.
Channel 11’s news exchange partners at TribLIVE contributed to this report.