LYKENS TOWNSHIP - A 73-year-old Millersburg man was killed Thursday when his car crashed into a tractor-trailer along Route 25 near Joss Lane in this Dauphin County township.
State police at Lykens reported Gilbert Glenn Johnson Jr. was pronounced dead at the scene of the 5:35 p.m. accident by a Dauphin County deputy coroner.
His passenger, English May Johnson, 23, of Shenandoah, suffered moderate injuries and was transported by helicopter to Penn State Hershey Medical Center.
Police reported Johnson was driving a 1994 Buick Century west on Route 25 when his car entered the eastbound lane and struck a 2007 Freightliner operated by Matthew D. Adams, 40, of Sunbury, who escaped injury.
Assisting police at the scene were firefighters from Gratz and emergency medical personnel from Upper Dauphin.