MAY 12, 2015
KITTANNING TOWNSHIP, PA
Diesel fuel and ruptured cartons of milk coated Route 422
Tuesday afternoon after a tractor-trailer hit a garbage truck near Pine Tree
Road in Kittanning Township.
The Dean's milk tractor-trailer driven by David Rosenbaum
hit the garbage truck in the rear as it was turning onto Pine Tree Road,
township Fire Chief Steve Baker said. Neither Rosenbaum, nor the driver of the
garbage truck, Ron Hagofsky of Kittanning Township, were injured in the crash.
The road was closed for about an hour while cleanup of
diesel fuel at the crash scene was cleaned up by the Armstrong County Hazmat
Team. It was opened to one lane of traffic by about 4 p.m.
“With all that milk, the tractor-trailer just had too much
momentum behind it and wasn't able to stop before it hit the garbage truck,”
Baker said. “I don't know how nobody got hurt, but we ended up with about 150
gallons of diesel fuel and 500 gallons of milk on the road.”
Eric Horell, an admissions counselor at St. Francis
University, was traveling west on Route 422 when the crash occurred. He swerved
into a guard rail, which damaged the Toyota Corolla he had rented.
“I just heard a loud ‘bang,' and reacted,” Horell said. “If
I hadn't swerved out of the way, I would have hit both of the trucks head-on.”
Trooper Kurtis Glasgow said state police have not determined
if charges will be filed against Hagofsky or Rosenbaum.