State police at Frackville are investigating an apparent suicide that occurred along Interstate 81 southbound in Foster Township, Schuylkill County.

Troopers said on Wednesday at 6 a.m. they were dispatched to mile marker 114.5 for a report of a person struck by a commercial vehicle. State police said a man got out of the passenger side of a vehicle that was parked on the right shoulder of the interstate. He then walked onto the roadway and jumped into the path of a passing commercial vehicle.

The county coroner is investigating the death as a suicide. Southbound traffic was detoured at exit 116 for about 3½ hours.