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Monday, July 11, 2016Area:
Washington, DCDate:
Monday, January 27, 2014A wrong-way crash on Interstate 81 in Cumberland County left one woman dead on Tuesday night.
State police say a tractor-trailer crashed head-on into a vehicle headed north in the southbound lanes in Silver Spring Township. The collision happened after the truck sideswiped another vehicle trying to avoid the oncoming car.
The crash happened shortly before 9 p.m. on I-81 near mile marker 57 outside of Mechanicsburg.
The driver of the wrong-way vehicle, Aaron King, of Carlisle, was killed
Date:
Saturday, January 4, 2014Area:
Pittsburgh, PAThe southbound lanes of Interstate 81, between exit 24 in Southampton Township and exit 20 in Greene Township, have reopened following an accident that claimed two lives and injured five at 3:10 p.m. Sunday, according to police and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
A northbound vehicle crossed the median and struck a second vehicle traveling south, police said. The second vehicle was pushed into another southbound vehicle at mile marker 21.5, near exit 20 in Greene Township.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013Area:
Washington, DCA Chambersburg woman died in a head-on collision along the southbound lanes of Interstate 81 this morning in Southampton Township, Franklin County, state police said.
The victim was identified as Ashley D. Brechbiel, 26, no address given, according to police.
Troopers said Brechbiel was traveling north on Interstate 81 just after 2 a.m. in her 1993 Dodge Dakota truck, when she left the roadway, crossed the grassy median and entered the southbound lanes near Exit 24, the exit for Route 696.