Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael Pahira killed in crash o…
Car Crash Cass Township Pennsylvania in Cass Township, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael Pahira, a 20-year veteran, was killed in a fiery crash on Interstate 81 in Cass Township, Schuylkill County, shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday. Pahira was standing next to a tractor-trailer he had stopped for a safety inspection when another southbound truck veered off the road, struck Pahira's pickup truck and the stopped tractor-trailer, then hit Pahira and dragged him before catching fire with Pahira underneath it. First responders pulled Pahira from under the truck and transported him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The driver of the striking truck was identified and treated at a local hospital; the cause of the crash remains under investigation.