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PENNDoT finally fixing dangerous Route 8 intersection after fatal accident

Mar 19, 2014

After receiving hundreds of complaints, compiling countless accidents, and enduring the death of promising young 28-year-old Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese employee on Friday, PENNDoT will finally begin to rethink how a dangerous Route 8 intersection should be handled. Police told reporters that the bus driver was travelling south along Route 8 and turned left on to East Hardies Road when the driver of a pick-up truck, heading north, struck the bus as it was turning. The...

Lawrence County man dies after tractor accident

Mar 17, 2014

A man from Enon Valley, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania was killed on Sunday evening when the tractor he was driving flipped over and landed on him, according to police. PA State Police told reporters that the 36-year-old man was working with another man, logging for most of the day along Mud Ridge Road near State Line Road when the accident happened. Apparently, the man was pulling a chain with three giant logs attached at the end...

Courts approve $18 Million Settlement for crash victim

Mar 12, 2014

Courts in Lawrence County have appropriately approved $18 million in settlement monies to a motor vehicle accident victim and his family. The amount promised is a victory that is hopefully enough to take care of the young man for the rest of his life. Attorney Dallas Hartman told reporters that he and his firm are "very pleased with this result." The case, which has been ongoing for nearly a decade, has rendered a result that...

One man dead after fatal Conneaut Township collision

Mar 12, 2014

Ohio State Police are investigating an Erie County accident that has left one man dead. The accident took place Sunday evening along Route 6 North westbound in Conneaut Township, near Albion. The victim, a 72-year-old man from Conneaut, Ohio, was killed when another driver collided into him as the victim tried to pass the other driver on Route 6 North near Knapp Road / PA Route 215 in Conneaut Township at around 9 p.m. Police...

Truck accident sends one man to hospital in Ohio

Mar 11, 2014

A truck accident has sent one man to the hospital. Ohio State Police say the 81-year-old man was Life-Flighted to a nearby hospital after a commercial tractor trailer overturned and dumped at least eight thousand gallons of unpasteurized cow's milk all over Interstate 76 East near the Meander Creek Reservoir in Mahoning County near Austintown, Ohio. Police told reporters that the driver of the tractor trailer was entering I-76 East when he failed to properly...

Ohio woman dies in collision with train

Mar 11, 2014

A woman from Ohio who was a passenger in a vehicle that was struck by a train early Sunday morning has died. The driver of the vehicle remains was last listed in critical condition. The 31-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. The collision occurred in Clinton Township, Wayne County, about forty west of Canton, just south of Wooster. A spokesperson from the Wayne County Sherriff's Office told reporters that a...

Passenger in Erie accident dies from injuries

Mar 9, 2014

A 24-year-old man is dead after a fatal motor vehicle accident in Erie, early Sunday morning. Local police told reporters that they discovered the accident upon their regular rounds shortly after 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning. They say the accident was not called in and that it is likely it occurred just minutes before they arrived. Police say they found the 2007 GMC Sierra after it had apparently hit two trees at the intersection of Koehler...

Interstate 70 claims another life

Mar 7, 2014

A man from Ohio was killed in a rollover accident along Interstate 70 in Washington County late Thursday evening. Pennsylvania State Police say the man was headed eastbound on I-70 when he lost control of his sport utility vehicle and it rolled over into westbound lanes. The man was been identified as a 29-year-old from Martin's Ferry, Ohio. The man was reportedly driving at around 1:30 a.m. near North Franklin Township, Washington County, about a...

14-year-old girl killed by dump truck in Pittsburgh

Mar 7, 2014

An eighth grader from McKeesport was killed when she was hit by a dump truck as school let out, late Thursday afternoon. She was only fourteen. The girl was officially identified this morning by an Allegheny County medical examiner. Witnesses say she was crossing Eden Park Boulevard, following a group of friends, when she was hit. They say she was not walking within the designated cross-walk area and that a school bus likely obstructed her...

Truck accident on Interstate 80 sends two men to hospital

Mar 5, 2014

A man from Elyria, Ohio was Life-Flighted to Altoona after two tractor-trailers collided on Sunday in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 near DuBois, Pennsylvania. PA State Police say the accident happened between mile markers 90 and 100 in Washington Township, Clearfield County. Police say one driver, a man from Snellville, Georgia, was headed eastward when he pulled his truck over to the side of the road in order to inspect a flat tire. Concurrently,...