Founded in 1770, Wilkes Barre is a former coal town along the scenic Susquehanna River. It is an outdoor enthusiast's paradise for kayaking, whitewater rafting and hiking an extensive system of hiking/biking trails. Four state parks and numerous ski areas make this a popular destination.
Scranton is at the center of the Lackawanna River Valley, located between the Pocono and Endless Mountains. Just ten miles from the city is Lackawanna State Park, where visitors are welcome to sail or ice skate across the 198-acre Lackawanna Lake. Nay Aug Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, and includes a zoo, a museum, two Olympic sized swimming pools and a great gorge topped with a treehouse.
To get up-to-date road information to help travel around Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, go to the Pennsylvania 511 site. And to find out current weather conditions, go to the National Weather Service site.
Interstate 81 passes north–south near Wilkes-Barre, and the city is also located near the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and is about 10 miles north of Interstate 80. Public transportation is provided by the Luzerne County Transportation Authority. In addition to servicing the main arteries of the city, it provides transportation for the northern half of the county, as well as a connecting bus to Scranton via an interchange at Pittston with County of Lackawanna Transit System, the public transit authority of Lackawanna County.
The main highways that serve Scranton are Interstate 81, which runs north to Binghamton, New York and Ontario and south to Harrisburg and Tennessee; Interstate 84, which runs east to Milford and New England; Interstate 380, which runs southeast to Mount Pocono and Interstate 80 east to New York City and west to San Francisco; Interstate 476/Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension, which runs south to Allentown and Philadelphia; U.S. Route 6, which runs east to Carbondale and parallel to I-84 to New England and west to Erie; and U.S. Route 11, which runs parallel to I-81.
Scranton's providers of public transportation are the County of Lackawanna Transit System the Luzerne County Transportation Authority (LCTA), which mainly runs through The Minooka section (closest to Luzerne County) and Downtown Scranton by the steamtown mall.
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport is located in nearby Avoca. The airport is serviced by American Airlines, Delta, and United.
Martz Trailways and Greyhound Lines provide coach bus transportation from its downtown station to New York City, Philadelphia and other points in the northeast.
Private operators such as Posten Taxi and McCarthy Flowered Cabs service the Scranton area. They are hired by telephone through central dispatch and cannot be hailed on the street as in larger cities.
If you are looking for information on a specific crash that happened in Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, go to the link above for the accident type you are seeking.
When a loved one is killed in a motor-vehicle accident, it is often helpful for grieving family and friends to get help from a grief support organization. It can be comforting to talk with others going through a similar situation, and the road to recovering from the loss may go more smoothly. Go here to get information on Wilkes-Barre grief support and Scranton grief support.
When injury or death is the result of a motor-vehicle crash, many decisions need to be made immediately and questions need to be answered. For example, how much of the medical costs will be covered by the insurance policy? How does PIP insurance help with medical bills immediately? What if the at-fault driver has no insurance?
El 16 de abril de 2014, un jurado de la Corte de Asuntos Menores de Filadelfia concedió a una pareja víctima de un atropello donde el responsable se dio a la fuga un total de $250.000 por las lesiones sufridas.
Una demanda por suministro negligente se origina cuando el dueño de un vehículo de motor se lo confía (suministra) a alguien que él sabe incapaz de usar el vehículo apropiadamente y un tercero resulta lesionado.
Unfortunately, certain risks come along with Halloween. There are more pedestrians on the road, kids are out running around in costumes that make them difficult to see, people are taking food and candy from strangers, and people are consuming alcohol at parties.
Whether it’s texting a friend, answering a phone call, eating a sandwich, using a GPS, or playing with the music, distracted driving causes thousands of accidents each year.
As these rideshare services are relatively new, there is still a lot of gray area in determining liability in the event of something like an accident or injury.
If you’re in court and suing for a personal injury, the general rule is that you are not responsible for paying taxes if you win your lawsuit.
As we live in one of the most beautiful countries in the entire world (with one of the best highway systems), road trips have become a common summer vacation. However, many people still make some very common mistakes.
Although a vast majority of trips to amusement parks go off without a hitch, there are times when people experience unfortunate incidents in these types of parks.
The unfortunate reality is that millions of kids suffer from sports injuries each year in a variety of sports, and it’s important that you know what to do in the unfortunate event that it happens to your child.
You have lost time at work, you are falling behind on your bills as time goes by, and you really just need time to recover. On top of the physical suffering you have endured, the insurance company does not seem to want to play fair and you cannot afford a truck accident attorney.
