A head-on collision on IL-34 just two miles north of Harrisburg sent six people to the hospital with injuries caused by the crash. The accident occurred at 5:29 p.m. on Sunday and forced authorities to shut down the highway until about 10:30 p.m.

Law enforcement officials believe the accident occurred when a vehicle crossed the center line into oncoming traffic and struck another vehicle head-on. 

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The former girlfriend of a man from Casper accused ofvehicular homicide testified Monday that he had asked her to lie about a carcrash that killed a 72 year-old woman.

Justin Breazeale was driving a pickup truck with Brooke McCulloch in the passengers seat when hestruck a car drven by 72 year-old Madeline Rakestraw. Rakestraw was transportedto Wyoming Medical Center where she died later that day. McCulloch testified thatat the time of the accident, Breazeale was huffing a can of “Dust-Off” a brandof pressurized air used for cleaning electronics. Pennsylvania State Policefound two cans of “Dust-Off” in the vehicle.

Breazeale’s defense attorney Kurt Infanger argued that hehad used the pressured air to clean the truck’s dashboard. McCulloch said thatwas a fabrication. “That’s what he said after the wreck. He said that’s what wewere going to tell the poice…” She added.

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A motorcyclist was badly injured on Sunday after he was struckby another vehicle.

Police say 46 year-old Thomas McKenna of Yardley, was ridinghis 2002 Harley Davidson eastbound on Cass street when he was struck by anInfiniti G-35 shortly before 4:30 p.m. near Route 129. 43 year-old Darby Torreswas traveling westbound on Cass when he reportedly broke a traffic law andsmashed into the motorcycle

Police describe Torres as an irresponsible driver. A bloodtest will be conducted to determine whether Torres was impaired at the time ofthe accident.

McKenna was transported to a nearby hospital where he isrecovering from his  injuries.

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A two women were killed when their motorcycle collided witha pickup truck on Thursday in Reading.

25 year-old Penny Jean “PJ” Morang Richards was pronounceddead at the scene of the accident along with a 32 year-old woman who was apassenger on the bike. Penny’s mother said her daughter was leaving the funeralof a friend who was killed in a car accident when her motorcycle was struck bya pickup truck.

Police say that a green and silver pickup truck struck the motorcycle at the intersectionof Lowell Street and High Street.

The identity of the driver of the pickup truck has not beenreleased. It is unknown whether the driver sustained any injuries in the crash.

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A western Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to drunkendriving and involuntary manslaughter in a crash that killed a friend a yearago.

Twenty-four-year-old Paul Endler of Somerset County,Pennsylvania, will be sentenced on December 21.

According to Pennsylvania State Police Endler was driving acar owned by fifty-two-year-old Jeffrey Graffius of Conemaugh Township, when helost control and struck a tree in Cambria County on November 11, 2008. Graffiuswas killed in the crash. Authorities say Endler’s blood alcohol content wasalmost three times the legal limit of .08 percent.

Distrcit Attorney Patrick Kiniry said he agreed to a pleadeal because the two men were best friends and because of the compassion of thevictim’s family. Endler’s defense attorney, Robert Davis Gleason, called thecrash tragic and said the fact that the two men were close compounds Endler’s “remorseand regret.”

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A man from New York collapsed from a heart attack whiledriving after a tire hit his truck on Saturday.

The accident occurred after a tire came off the front of asouthbound tractor-trailer on Interstate 81. The wheel bounced across themedian and struck the Chevrolet pickup truck from New York. The tire then shotback into the southbound lanes and collided with a Toyota Prius, driven by a31-year-old from Morgatown, West Virginia.

The drivers were able to safely pull to the side of theroad. The man who had been driving a pickup truck attempted to pry his damagedfender away from his tire. He suffered a heart attack while doing this. Abystander attempted to give him cardiopulmonary resuscitation beforeChambersburg Emergency services arrived.

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Actor Russell Crowe and Actress Elizabeth Banks, who arefilming a new movie in Pennsylvania, were involved in a car accident Wednesdayafternoon.

The two were shooting the new film “The Next Three Days” andwere doing a scene that required them to be in a van. The van was parked andthe actors were inside when a fire truck collided with their vehicle. The truckwas pulling out of the Deutshtown Fire Station when it struck the front end ofthe van.

No injuries have been reported. Production was reportedlyhalted on the film set for quite some time.

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