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The driver of a tractor-trailer that overturned and backed up Interstate 81 near Carlisle Wednesday lost control of the vehicle after choking on some coffee, state police said.
Richard Francis, 61, was driving south on the interstate when he took the offending sip of coffee near Exit 44 at about 3:12 p.m., state police reported. Francis was trying to pull off the roadway onto the right shoulder to settle himself when the vehicle slid into the grass off the shoulder and struck a wire fence, police said.
A total of five people were injured and taken to a trauma center Saturday after a single-vehicle crash in Upper Allen Township, according to township police.
The crash took place shortly after 9 p.m. in the 800 block of McCormick Road, according to an Upper Allen Township Police Department press release. The 18-year-old Shiremanstown resident who was driving the vehicle, along with four passengers, were all taken to the Hershey Medical Center for injuries, according to police.
Route 272 in Lancaster County near Willow Street is open following a fatal crash early Monday involving mules and three vehicles.
The crash happened about 6 a.m. Monday when two mules were struck in the southbound lanes just south of Willow Street.
The vehicle that struck the mules crossed into the northbound lanes and was hit by two vehicles.
The 19-year-old male driver of the vehicle that struck the mules was killed. One of mules was killed and the other was injured and later put down.