A New Jersey truck driver was killed in a crash on Interstate 78 in Upper Saucon Township on Wednesday afternoon.

The Lehigh County Coroner’s office said that Timothy O. Atanda, 48, was pronounced dead in the emergency department at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest.

The coroner said Atanda was the driver of a tractor-trailer that veered off the highway and overturned at 2:01 p.m. Wednesday on I-78 eastbound at mile marker 60.7.

State police at Fogelsville are investigating.