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A car hit a high pressure main when it crashed into a house Saturday, causing a gas leak in Darby, Delaware County, according to authorities.
This happened around 4:15 p.m. at the home located on the 400 block of Darby Terrace when a driver reportedly hit the gas pedal instead of the brake while parallel parking.
Crews were forced to evacuate the block while working on the gas leak caused when the car hit a high pressure main.
The gas leak is now contained and people are being allowed back in their homes.
Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a one vehicle crash on the Blue Route in Radnor Township.
It happened around 2:30 a.m. Friday morning.
State Police say the driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
I-476 southbound was closed between US 30 and Route 3 for about five hours.
All southbound lanes were reopened to traffic around 7:30 a.m.
The accident remains under investigation.
A deadly crash where a car flipped multiple times closed a major roadway for more than five hours this morning.
The single-car wreck closed the Blue Route (I-476) southbound around Exit 13 around 2:10 a.m.
The driver, Edward Harre, was thrown from the vehicle after it struck a median resulting in it flipping over multiple times before coming to a rest on its roof, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Medics declared Harre dead at the scene, according to police.
Delaware State Police have identified the man who was critically hurt after ramming his car into a parked tractor trailer along I-95 on Friday night, closing part of the highway for hours.
Twan Money, of Newark, Del., was driving his red 2009 Chevy Aveo southbound on the highway near the exit for Route 141 in New Castle, Del. around 7:40 p.m. on Friday when the crash occurred, state police said.
At least two people are hospitalized Friday night following an accident involving several vehicles on the Schuylkill Expressway in Philadelphia.
It happened shortly before 9 p.m. on I-76 westbound between West Exit 341 – Montgomery Dr/West River Dr and West Exit 339 – US 1 South/City Ave.
All westbound lanes were shut down for about 40 minutes.
Multiple police and medic units responded to the scene.
Two people were taken to Hahnemann University Hospital. The conditions of the victims are unknown at this time.
An accident involving three tractor-trailers has shutdown the eastbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Bucks County.
The accident happened at about 6 a.m. Friday in the eastbound lanes of the Turnpike near the exit for Route 1 in Bensalem.
According to investigators, the accident involved three tractor-trailers.
As a result of the crash, several rolls of steel that were being hauled by one of the tractors involved in the crash smashed through a concrete barrier and ended up in the westbound lanes.