Posted on April 13th, 2010
Three young children were killed when a station wagon crashed into a highway guardrail and rolled down an embankment in Harrisburg, Monday.
According to officials with the Pennsylvania State Police Department, a 57 year-old woman was driving through Middle Paxton Township, in Dauphin County, Saturday night when the accident occurred. Police say the car veered out of its lane, crashed through a guardrail, and struck a guide wire before going airborne and crashing into a tree. The vehicle rolled down a fifty foot embankment and landed upside down, police say.
Deputy Coroner Lynn Choborda says a 5 year-old boy, a 3 year-old boy, and a 3 year-old girl were killed in the accident. The driver is hospitalized in serious condition, Choborda said.
Harrisburg police say the cause of the accident is still under investigation.
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Posted on April 8th, 2010
A teenager from Newville was killed in a car crash Monday in Cumberland County.
Cumberland County Coroner Todd C. Eckenrode said 17 year-old Jacob Smith was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after 10:00 p.m. Monday. According to officials with the Pennsylvania State Police at Carlisle, Smith was traveling north at a high speed when he lost control of the car at the crest of a hill. Police say the car veered off the roadway, through a front yard, struck a concrete pad and began to roll.
Eckenrode said Smith was the only person in the vehicle at the time of the crash. Smith was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the vehicle as it rolled. He died as a result of head trauma, said Eckenrode.
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Posted on March 9th, 2010
A man in Pennsylvania was killed Friday while filling his car at a gas station.
According to Todd Eckenrode, the Cumberland County Coroner, 19 year-old L. David Byers was pumping gas into his Toyota Yaris at a BP station in Lower Allen, Pennsylvania shortly before 3:00 a.m. Friday, when gasoline vapor fumes caught fire. Byers was killed after inhaling superheated gases from the flash fire. State police say Byers fell victim to a rare phenomenon where static electric discharge sparked the gasoline vapor.
Bill Renkes, a spokesman with the Petroleum Equipment Institute in Oklahoma, blames Byers' youth for the tragic incident. Renkes said younger people are unaware of the dangerous of static electricity at gas stations. Older people know to touch the car door before pumping gas, Renkes says, which acts as a ground to discharge static electricity.
"There are 11 billion fill-ups a year," Renkes said. "This is the second fatality we know of. That makes the chances of dying this way, what, two in tens of billions…"
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Posted on February 18th, 2010
A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced for driving under the influence in relation to a crash that killed a police officer.
Levittown-resident Frank Budka Jr. was sentenced Tuesday to 4 1/2 to 17 years in state prison for driving under the influence and causing the death of Middletown Township police officer Chris Jones. Jones, a married 37 year-old father of three and 10-year veteran of the police force, was struck by his own patrol car after Budka's vehicle crashed into it. Jones' police cruiser was stopped on the side of the road during a routine traffic detail on January 29, 2009, when Budka slammed into the vehicle pushing it forward into the police officer.
At the time of the crash, Budka had marijuana, cocaine, metabolites, and methadone in his system.
According to police, an accident reconstruction estimates Budka was driving 63 miles per hour when the crash occurred.
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Posted on December 22nd, 2009
A rare December storm left Fredericksburg residents under 20 inches of snow, creating hazardous conditions on heavily traveled roadways. State Police report that they received over 3,000 calls about disabled vehicles and collisions.
One traffic death was reported after a Pennsylvania man traveling westbound on Interstate 66 was killed when his Ford F-250 truck struck a tractor-trailer that was moving slowly along the roadway.
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Posted on November 11th, 2009
Pennsylvania State Police believe an 18-year-old man fromAmbler is responsible for a four-vehicle crash on Tuesday morning.
Jonathan Trueheart is listed in critical condition atCrozer-Chester Medical Center Tuesday night after his Ford Explorer collidedwith a Honda Civic driven by 33-year-old Joseph Sherlock. The crash occurred atthe intersection of Route 352 and Knowlton Road.
Sherlock, of Upper Providence, was pronounced dead at thescene.
Two other drivers involved in the accident were treated atCrozer-Chester Medical Center and Riddle Memorial Hospital and released.
Pennsylvania State Police Troop K Commander, Capt. David Young,said Trueheart was speeding and driving erratically.
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Posted on September 17th, 2009
The driver of a sports utility vehicle lost control of the car, hit two guard rails, and flipped multiple times Friday. The SUV's passenger, Roger Gelnett of Harrisburg, was thrown from the vehicle and then hit by two cars traveling in the other direction, according to police reports.
When medical officials arrived, they pronounced Gelnett dead at the scene of the accident. The SUV's driver, Donna Welborn, was taken to a nearby hospital and treated for minor injuries. When the accident occurred, neither Gelnett nor Welborn were wearing seatbelts, according to police reports.
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