Advanced Search
Date:
Thursday, March 2, 2023Date:
Friday, May 30, 2014Both lanes of Route 283 eastbound were closed at Route 743 for close to five hours due to a motorcycle accident on Saturday.
Police say the crash, involving a motorcycle and truck tractor semitrailer occurred around 8:15 a.m. on Route 283 at the Elizabethtown Road overpass.
Investigators say the motorcyclist, 25-year-old Kevin M. Shirk of Harrisburg died at the scene. The driver of the truck was not injured.
Police say the accident closed both lanes of Route 283 east from the Route 743 exit to the Elizabethtown Rheems exit.
Date:
Tuesday, March 25, 2014Two people were transported Wednesday morning to area hospitals after a two-vehicle crash on Route 283 westbound in East Hempfield Township in which a Jeep Wrangler overturned.
The driver of the Wrangler was ejected from the vehicle, but suffered injuries that did not appear to be life threatening, township police said. The crash occurred around 6:03 a.m. and briefly blocked both westbound lanes of Route 283 in the area of Spooky Nook Road.