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Wednesday, January 7, 2015Area:
Pittsburgh, PATractor-trailers, trucks and cars were all involved in the crash on westbound I-80 that left two people dead and more than 10 injured. Police say the pileup in Clarion Township occurred during a snow squall Wednesday afternoon and involved at 18 vehicles. Timothy Floravit of Beaver Falls collapsed and died of internal injuries while looking for his children, who had been ejected from their vehicle.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014Area:
Philadelphia, PAA car and a semi collided at Route 100 and Schoeneck Road in Lower Macungie Township Wedesday night, killing Sally Romano, 53, of Macungie. The accident was reported during a light snowfall at 7:30 p.m. The truck driver called in the accident and told Lehigh County 911 operators that the woman driving the car was trapped. The woman was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m. The semi-trailer was headed south on Route 100 when the eastbound car crossed the highway from Schoeneck Road and the two vehicles crashed into each other. The car had a stop sign.
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Thursday, October 2, 2014Area:
Washington, DCThe southbound lanes of Interstate 81 in Franklin County were closed for seven hours Thursday morning, according to Chambersburg police. The semi was traveling north when it crossed into incoming traffic, where it glanced another vehicle before overturning on an embankment in Guilford Township. The crash left the driver in serious condition.
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Monday, September 8, 2014Area:
Pittsburgh, PAState police have been searching for a tractor-trailer that lost two tires, causing a fatal 2-vehicle accident on Interstate 79 west of Pittsburgh. Scott Rice was killed, and his passenger and the other car's driver were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police say the semi driver may not even realize the tires came off that vehicle.
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Thursday, September 4, 2014Area:
Pittsburgh, PANo injuries have been reported, but traffic in the area is delayed while the scene is cleared of the wreck.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014Area:
Erie, PAHigh winds and swirling snow that slashed visibility to nearly zero left the southbound lanes of Interstate 79 littered with wrecked cars and trucks Thursday morning.
That series of crashes, which began at about 9:15 a.m. and involved 26 cars and three tractor-trailers, prompted Pennsylvania State Police and the Pennsylvania Department of transportation to close Interstate 79 between the McKean and Edinboro exits until about 12:15 p.m.
There were no reports, however, of any serious injuries. Five people were treated at UPMC Hamot, but none of them was admitted.
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Monday, January 13, 2014A driver paying a toll died after a big rig slammed into his car causing a fiery wreck that left two people hurt.
On Tuesday morning, Pennsylvania State Police identified the driver of the station wagon that was struck at the tollbooths on westbound Interstate 78 in Williams Township, Pa.
Police say Daniel Murphy of Hackettstown, N.J. was stopped in toll lane 4 of I--78 near Morgan Hill Road when a ShopRite tractor-trailer driven by an unidentified 55-year-old from Allentown, Pa. rammed into Murphy's 200 Ford Taurus wagon.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013A 52-year-old Maryland man was killed when the vehicle he was in was struck by a tractor-trailer in Mount Holly Springs Thursday morning.
John Mark Houser's vehicle was hit just before 6 a.m. at Routes 34 and 94, according to the Cumberland County Coroner's office.
Houser, of Westminster, Md., was the only person in the vehicle, according to the coroner's office. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday.
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Monday, December 23, 2013Area:
Pittsburgh, PACrashes involving a semi-truck hauling two trailers and other vehicles have prompted state police to close Interstate 70 in both directions in southwestern Pennsylvania.
The crash happened Tuesday morning near the exit for Eighty Four and state Route 519 in Washington County. That's about 25 miles inside Pennsylvania, east of the West Virginia border.
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Thursday, December 19, 2013Area:
Johnstown-Altoona, PAPolice are looking for leads in the whereabouts of a tractor-trailer that apparently struck a PPL Electric Utilities pole in Susquehanna Township earlier Friday, then fled the scene.
The crash, which was reported at 3:20 a.m. in the 3300 block of Walnut Street, dragged several power lines into the street and caused widespread outages in the immediate area until it was cleared up earlier Friday afternoon. The truck, possibly a Great Dane trailer, struck the pole at the corner of Walnut and North 34th streets, but continued on its way in an unknown direction of travel, police said.