Saturday, January 24, 2015

2 MEN SERIOUSLY HURT IN MAHONING TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA HEAD-ON COLLISION BETWEEN A PICKUP TRUCK AND A STATION WAGON



 2 MEN SERIOUSLY HURT IN MAHONING TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA HEAD-ON COLLISION BETWEEN A PICKUP TRUCK AND A STATION WAGON

 Rescue workers from three fire companies begin their extrication of an injured Weissport man from a pickup truck that collided Friday afternoon with a station wagon in Mahoning Township. The station wagon driver also was injured. (LARRY NEFF, SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL)

January 23, 2015

Two men were injured badly Friday afternoon when a station wagon and pickup truck collided head-on on Route 902 in Mahoning Township.

The station wagon was southbound on Route 902 shortly after 5 p.m. when it crashed into the northbound pickup truck in an area known as Bugzies Mountain.

The drivers were trapped in their vehicles and had to be extricated by rescue crews over the next hour.

The station wagon was believed to have been driven by a West Penn Township man. The pickup driver is from Weissport.

Mahoning Township police is investigating the accident.

Mahoning, Summit Hill and Lehighton fire companies assisted at the accident scene.