TROUT RUN — One man was killed Friday afternoon when his southbound car first struck the side of a northbound pickup truck and then plowed into the 31-foot long camper the truck was pulling at Route 14 and Field Station Road, about four miles north of here, in Lewis

Township, state police at the scene confirmed.

For an unknown reason, the driver of the car, a Honda Civic, drifted into the northbound lane and collided with the oncoming truck and camper just before 2 p.m., police said.

A South Williamsport man driving the truck and his wife, a passenger, were on their way to a nearby campsite for the holiday weekend when the violent collision occurred.

The couple was not injured, police said.

While the truck was drivable, the camper, a 2020 Cherokee Grey Wolf, was destroyed.

The driver of the Honda was pinned in the wreckage for about 10 minutes, Trout Run fire officials said.

Emergency responders and paramedics initially got a pulse on the driver, but lost it while he was being taken in an ambulance to a Life Flight landing zone near Trout Run. A deputy coroner pronounced the driver, believed to be from the northwestern region of the commonwealth, dead at the scene. His identity was expected to be released from the Lycoming County Coroner’s Office later this weekend.

Besides Trout Run, firefighters from Ralston, Hepburn Township and Old Lycoming Township responded to the crash

The state Department of Transportation shut down Route 14 for at least four hours while the scene was being cleaned up. State highway workers had the two-lane road closed until 7 p.m.