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?
AAA refers to the days between Memorial Day and when the kids go back to school “the deadliest 100 days of the year” in terms of car accidents. Many lives are affected by summertime car crashes. In fact, statistics have proven that car accidents are more prevalent in the summer, with the average deaths each day exceeding ten during this period of time.
The loophole in personal injury lawsuits in Pennsylvania is the shared fault argument, which means that not all personal injury lawsuits will result in a winner and a loser.
While you may not be able to sue your employer under Pennsylvania laws, there are other personal injury lawsuits that may be established when a workplace injury occurs.
With that said, it is scary that not all truck drivers follow the rules, regulations, and guidelines that have been established and implemented to ensure other drivers, motorcyclists, and even bicyclists and pedestrians are safe from truck accidents on our roads.
The healthcare industry understands that if they make mistakes that cause patients injuries or death, they may be faced with expensive personal injury or even wrongful death lawsuits.
In Pennsylvania, employees may take up to twelve weeks a year for a serious health condition, whereby they cannot perform the essential functions of the job, or to care for a family member with a serious health condition, and this leave renews each year.
Despite all of the safety measures these parks work so hard to implement, catastrophic injuries are still occurring. In fact, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) assembled a report that showed that injuries were actually increasing in number, rather than decreasing.
We’re proposing a national change in the hours drivers should be allowed to continuously commute. 14 hours is the current legal amount. We want to force the issue and lower the limit to 12 hours. 2 hours might not seem like much, but can be a difference maker in road safety.
Of course, when a hit-and-run accident occurs, not only is traffic affected, but the victim is left with several questions to resolve. Most importantly, how do you hold someone accountable and recover damages for your injuries if you do not know the identity of the driver that hit you?
Now that winter has ended, it is time for Philadelphians to prepare their cars for spring and summer. A little maintenance can go a long way in preserving your vehicle’s performance, efficiency and safety.
