Snowdrift Road blocked by truck and train accident
It happened early Monday afternoon in Upper Macungie Township, PENNSYLVANIA
December 29, 2014
UPPER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Snowdrift Road near
Tilghman Street in Upper Macungie Township was blocked for about three hours
Monday afternoon by an accident involving a train and a tractor-trailer.
It appears the truck was hit by a boxcar, which knocked
it over onto its passenger side and pinned it against a utility pole.
No injuries were reported. Quick Clicks Images:
Truck-train collision in Lehigh County The crash occurred about 12:30 p.m.
Monday at the Norfolk Southern crossing on Snowdrift Road.
The truck driver was identified as 50-year-old Raymond
Marra of the 300 block of Chambers Street in Phillipsburg, N.J. Upper Macungie
Township police report Marra was driving south on Snowdrift and failed to
observe the train traveling west.
A train car struck Marra's trailer, which caused both
the cab and trailer to overturn. Both the truck, a 2012 Volvo tractor, and the
trailer received major damage and had to be towed.