Published: Sunday, April 8, 2007
OTHER PILEUPS I-80 accidents
The Mercer County, Pa. stretch of Interstate 80 is no stranger to mayhem caused by bad weather:
Friday: A whiteout causes a 28-car pileup in East Lackawannock Township, with no serious injuries.
March 4: A 20-vehicle chain-reaction accident kills Francis Kos, 59, of Youngstown, whose car was in the middle of the pileup. Four others were injured. The wreck happened in Shenango Township near the Ohio line in the eastbound lane. A whiteout occurred just before the accident.
Feb. 24, 2005: Chain-reaction wrecks occur on both sides of the highway. They begin on the east side near Mercer when a van hits a patch of ice and crashes into a rock embankment. A passenger in the van, Karen Jones, 35, is killed. An hour later, two westbound tractor-trailers come upon emergency workers parked in the median at the scene of the crash. One skids into the other, then flips onto its side and skids into the median. The other truck goes out of control, fishtails into an emergency medical technician standing on the side of the road then veers right across the highway and down a steep embankment. The EMT suffers an arm injury. Other drivers slam on their brakes. Those managing to stop without hitting anything are targets for other, out-of-control motorists. In the end: four tractor-trailers wreck, along with cars involved in more than a dozen crashes behind them.
Dec. 19, 2004: An 80-car pileup injures several people, but no one is killed. After a tractor-trailer jackknifes into the right lane on the westbound side of the highway, vehicles slam into one another on the snow-covered road four miles east of West Middlesex. There are chain-reaction accidents in the eastbound lane as well. Truck driver Samuel Torres, 25, of Van Nuys, Calif., was found guilty of driving too fast for conditions.
Source: Vindicate files
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