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A 52-year-old Maryland man was killed when the vehicle he was in was struck by a tractor-trailer in Mount Holly Springs Thursday morning.
John Mark Houser's vehicle was hit just before 6 a.m. at Routes 34 and 94, according to the Cumberland County Coroner's office.
Houser, of Westminster, Md., was the only person in the vehicle, according to the coroner's office. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday.
Miranda Rose, 17, and Michael Bronzburg, 46, dead in small plane crash in Adams County, Pennsylvania
A 63-year-old woman was struck and killed Monday night along the 700 block of Fruitville Pike in Lititz, according to police.
The accident happened around 9:15 p.m. The victim has been identified as Suzanne Cassell, 63, of Lititz. She had crossed the street to get mail from her mailbox when she was hit by a 1996 Saturn, driven by Elizabeth Randler, 22, of Manheim, police said.
Cassell was killed in the collision and Randler was hospitalized.
Police say the "matter remains under investigation."
An explosion has been reported at the Gill Rock Drill Company in Lebanon.
One person was transported to the hospital with unknown injuries, according to a Lebanon County 911 dispatcher. The drill company is located in the 900 block of Cornwall Road.
The explosion was reported at 8:58 a.m. There was no other information immediately available.
Southwest Regional Police say a 67-year-old crashed into a tree Monday afternoon southeast of Hanover.
Police believe Larry Rummel suffered some sort of medical problem before going off the road in the 5000 block of southbound Blue Hill Road.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Snow apparently is causing havoc on Harrisburg-area roads.
A multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 83 south, between Exit 46A- Interstate 283 and Exit 45 (Paxton Street), at roughly 1:30 p.m. has closed all lanes.
And another, nearby accident a short time earlier has caused a lane restriction on Interstate 83 South, one mile south of exit 45, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
The driver of a tractor-trailer that overturned and backed up Interstate 81 near Carlisle Wednesday lost control of the vehicle after choking on some coffee, state police said.
Richard Francis, 61, was driving south on the interstate when he took the offending sip of coffee near Exit 44 at about 3:12 p.m., state police reported. Francis was trying to pull off the roadway onto the right shoulder to settle himself when the vehicle slid into the grass off the shoulder and struck a wire fence, police said.