ICY ROAD CONDITIONS LEAD TO MANY ACCIDENTS
IN EAST DRUMORE, EARL TOWNSHIPS, PENNSYLVANIA’S LANCASTER COUNTY
Icy
conditions contributed to an accident along Route 372 near the Buck Sunday
morning.
Posted:
Sunday, January 18, 2015 10:00 am | Updated: 2:36 pm, Sun Jan 18, 2015.
Freezing
rain left icy roads that resulted in a number of accidents Sunday morning.
An
accident involving a car, a pickup truck, a minivan and a golf cart closed a
section of Route 372 near Buck.
The
accident in East Drumore Township happened around 8:40 a.m. when parts of the
road were icy, according to Jeff Neff, chief of the Quarryville Fire Company.
Neff
said the accident happened after a golf cart came down the road towards an
earlier accident in which a minivan had flipped over.
A
car coming up a hill behind the golf cart hit its brakes and then went into a
slide. Then, a pick-up truck following behind hit the car, sending it into a
pole, Neff said.
There
were no injuries and the road was reopened around 10 a.m.
In
Earl Township just after 9 a.m., a car flipped onto its roof along Weaverland
Road between Tower Road and Spruce Street.
The
road in the area was very icy and the vehicle flipped onto its hood in the area
of an embankment, according to Darryl Keiser, assistant chief of Garden Spot
Fire Rescue.
There
were only minor injuries.
The
two people inside the car were transported to Ephrata Community Hospital as a
precaution, Keiser said.