December 27, 2013
The silence of the Left is deafening!
Authorities closed off portions of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Interstate 78 after dozens of vehicles — including a few tractor trailers — skidded into each other Thursday morning on the slippery winter roads.
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The silence of the Left is deafening!
Authorities closed off portions of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Interstate 78 after dozens of vehicles — including a few tractor trailers — skidded into each other Thursday morning on the slippery winter roads.
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The chain-reaction pileups sent some people to the hospital Thursday morning.
Two chain-reaction multicar pileups on snowy Pennsylvania highways clogged traffic, closed roads and hospitalized motorists Thursday.
The snow-white crash sites: slippery stretches of pavement along the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Interstate 78.
The turnpike crashes reportedly started about 9:12 a.m. when a plow truck got rear-ended by several vehicles in quick succession.
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The enormous pileup on the Pennsylvania Turnpike backed up traffic for miles.
"They were plowing and salting at the time, and three vehicles hit it from behind," Renee Colburn, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, told Lancaster Online.
Another crash occurred on that same road a mere half-mile away but the details surrounding it are still unclear.
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Emergency workers deal with the wreckage on Interstate 78 near exit 40.
"Until the State Police finish their investigation, we can't give an exact number," Colburn told the news site.
Authorities closed the turnpike's westbound lanes from Morgantown to Reading, roughly 50 miles west of Philadelphia.
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"All our wreckers are out, all our maintenance crew,” says Renee Colburn of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.
Several tractor trailers were mixed in the wreckage of some 35 vehicles — causing a 4-mile traffic jam, officials said.
About 10 people were rushed to hospitals but no fatalities have been reported, according to the local station.
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Vehicles are piled up at the crash site at the Pennsylvania Turnpike 286 mile marker.
Earlier Thursday morning, about 8:45 a.m., about 40 vehicles collided startling a pileup on I-78, according to WPVI.
The westbound lanes were closed for a stretch through Berks County, the station reported.
One person was airlifted to a nearby hospital but — as in the turnpike crash — no fatalities were reported. The lanes reopened after 3 p.m. Trooper David Beohm says 25 people were taken to hospitals and 44 were treated at the scene.
Officials are urging travelers to avoid these areas for the time being.
"We have no idea how long it will take to remove the wrecked vehicles," Colborn told The Patriot-News. "All our wreckers are out, all our maintenance crew."
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