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Mina Ellyse ([personal profile] ellyssian) wrote2008-09-08 06:00 pm
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Follow-Up

PA Turnpike Crash 12

I neglected to mention that the driver in today's truck crash was not injured severely. He was walking around, and later had ice on his shoulder, but other than that he appeared okay.

What happened? Based on the horns I heard and evidence I saw, someone cut him off. He swerved to avoid them, bounced off the inner guardrail, hit the lane barrier and broke partially through, and then came to a rest in a semi-jack-knifed position. I heard him talking to some other truckers, and one of them had said he couldn't see what had happened, but it seemed to imply another vehicle's involvement.

While workers were attempting to remove concrete from the southbound lane - a lane blocked off by the first reporting state troopers - some idiot decided the one lane wasn't fast enough, and the workers had to get out of the way quickly. The car actually went into the fast lane after they passed the cruiser! One of the troopers jumped back into the cruiser and hunted them down, so I'm sure they went home with a nice, big ticket to make up for their lack of patience.

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In other news, the forecast calls for rain, and the window of the car is jammed in the open position.

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