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Thursday, December 11, 2014Area:
Pittsburgh, PAAt around 10:07am, Shaffer was driving her SUV on an icy section of Route 422 and lost control. Her car turned sideways, crossed into the oncoming lane, and collided with a semi-truck head-on. She was later pronounced dead at the scene of the crash.
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Thursday, December 4, 2014Area:
Pittsburgh, PAA car was traveling north on the Rankin Bridge at about 7:30 a.m. when it slid on a patch of ice, lost control, and slammed into another car. Witnesses say the Rankin police chief gave the 3-year-old CPR before emergency medical personnel arrived, and she was then transported to Children’s Hospital with a spinal injury, which is causing breathing difficulties. The girl’s mother was also seriously injured, and the girl’s father and the two people in the other vehicle, a woman and her adult son, suffered minor injuries.
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Saturday, February 8, 2014Area:
Johnstown-Altoona, PAA tour bus driving too fast on a snow-covered road crashed in southwestern Pennsylvania Sunday, sending more than 20 passengers to the hospital with minor injuries, officials said.
State police said that bus driver Terrence Harold Shultz, 65, lost control and crashed into an embankment around 2:20 p.m. on Route 220 in Cumberland Valley Township, about five miles from the Maryland border. Twenty-six of the 33 passengers on the bus were taken to two hospitals in the area and all but three with minor injuries were treated and released, hospital officials said.
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014Downed power lines closed a road in Swatara Township in Lebanon County for more than an hour after an SUV crashed into a utility pole earlier Wednesday, state police said.
Neither the 17-year-old female driver nor the 16-year-old male passenger of the 1998 Ford Ranger were seriously injured in the crash, which police said took place around 9 a.m. Wednesday in the 500 block of Greble Road in Lebanon.
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Monday, January 6, 2014A Pine Grove woman was killed Tuesday morning in a one-vehicle crash in Washington Township, according to state police.
Mary Reed, 81, was the front seat passenger in a Subaru Legacy that hit a large patch of ice and crashed into a tree. Reed was not wearing a seat belt, state police said.
Bonnie Neal, 61, was the driver of the vehicle, and Annie Reed, 41, was a rear passenger behind the driver’s seat. Both women, who were not wearing their seat belts, suffered moderate, unknown injuries and were airlifted to Hershey Medical Center for treatment, state police said.