WORCESTER ACCIDENT

Driver uninjured after hitting wood, crashing into barrier on PA Turnpike, police say

The accident involved a single vehicle.

Pennsylvania State Police. Photo by James Short.

The accident involved a single vehicle.

  • Public Safety

A female driver was uninjured in October following a one-vehicle crash on the Northeast Extension in Worcester Township, Pennsylvania State Police out of King of Prussia reported Tuesday.

Police said the woman was driving a 2019 Volkswagen Jetta in the left lane of northbound I-476 the morning of Oct. 15, when the car hit a large piece of wood in the roadway at mile marker 26.4.

The VW caused the car to travel onto the left shoulder, where it hit a concrete barrier, police said.

The vehicle was towed from the scene after sustaining heavy front-end damage.



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Tony Di Domizio

Tony Di Domizio is the Managing Editor of NorthPennNow, PerkValleyNow, and CentralBucksNow, and a staff writer for WissNow. Email him at tony@northpennnow.com. Tony graduated from Kutztown University, under the tutelage of Dr. Matthew Nesvisky and Dr. Heather Thomas, and went on to serve as a reporter and editor for various news organizations, including Lansdale Patch/AOL, The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa., and the weekly Chronicle news editions of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. A fourth-generation Lansdalian, he was born and raised in and around the Borough, including Little Italy, and attended North Penn High School, graduating in 1998. He once interviewed Jesse Spano in the back of a limousine outside North Penn High School.

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