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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 20, 2014The Perry County coroner's office has been called to the scene of an accident along Route 11/15 in Watts Township.
The accident involving a tractor trailer and a pickup truck has blocked Route 11/15 south, along the 3100 block of the Susquehanna Trail, near the New Buffalo Restaurant.
One person later identified as John W. Graves 60, was ejected during the collision and was found unconscious on the roadway, according to initial dispatches from the scene.
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Sunday, January 19, 2014A 55-year-old construction worker was killed Monday morning at a job in Windsor Township, York County.
Police identified the victim as Benedict Todt, of Gardeners, Adams County.
Todt was working at the Red Lion Water Authority pumping facility at 500 Gebhart Rd. when the accident happened around 11 a.m.
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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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Sunday, January 12, 2014A tractor-trailer slammed into a house along Route 147 in Reed Township, Dauphin County, this afternoon, killing the driver, Michael Robert Bryerton, and causing the home to catch fire. The home's owner, Linda Knight, and her children were not at home at the time of the crash, but neighbors say that the family pets perished.
The home sits along the Susquehanna River, about 50 yards from the train tracks. Power has been cut to the house so tow trucks can attempt to remove the tractor-trailer from the home.
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014A 13-foot tall tractor-trailer that became wedged under a 12-foot-high railroad bridge in Carlisle, Cumberland County, has been cleared from the scene, but not before shutting down an intersection for hours.
The accident happened at the railroad bridge at North Orange Street and West High Street around 10 a.m. Wednesday. Police said they believe the driver, Albert Agoupi, 58, was following his GPS when he hit the bridge. No one was injured.
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Monday, December 30, 2013Area:
Nashville, TNOne person has died after a crash on Tuesday evening in Wilson County.
The crash was reported just after 8 p.m. near the intersection of Franklin Road and Central Pike.
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Friday, December 27, 2013A Lancaster County man was killed in a car accident at Route 441 and Long Lane in East Donegal Township late Saturday night.
Wagdy Behnam Abdel Shaheed, 56, died after Shannon Thurman , of Wrightsville, who was traveling south on Route 441, turned into the northbound lane and struck Shaheed’s vehicle head on, police said.
Thurman, 33, was extricated from her vehicle and flown to Hershey Medical Center with unspecified injuries. Her passenger, William E. Fox, 33, of Marietta, was taken to Lancaster General Hospital, for treatment.
Police still are investigating the accident.
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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.
Miranda Rose, 17, and Michael Bronzburg, 46, dead in small plane crash in Adams County, Pennsylvania
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013At least one person died in the crash of a small plane into a rural south-central Pennsylvania field, state police said.
Police said the crash early Thursday scattered debris over a quarter-mile area north of Gettysburg.
He said the plane was destroyed, but there didn't appear to have been a fire or explosion.
Hicks said neighbors in the Biglerville area heard what sounded like engine trouble and then the noise of the crash at about 5:30 a.m. Thursday.