Where are you most likely to hit a deer while driving along, minding you own business:
#1 – West Virginia
#2 – Pennsylvania. Your risk level is HIGH, 1/71. We are the 42nd most expensive state for car insurance. State Farm, Erie and Allstate are the top three providers. Frankly, I was surprised it wasn’t number ONE!
To read the article and see the top 20, click here –
Tollgate at the Willow Grove interchange (exit 343) of the Pennsylvania Turnpike (Interstate 276) with Pennsylvania Route 611 in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
PHILADELPHIA, PA — Authorities say more than a dozen people were injured in traffic accidents involving several tractor-trailers and dozens of cars on the Pennsylvania Turnpike outside Philadelphia.
Abington Memorial Hospital spokeswoman Cindy Taing says the hospital received 16 patients, including five trauma patients. She says no one has life-threatening injuries.
The series of accidents backed up traffic for miles between the Bensalem and Willow Grove exits of the turnpike, the state’s primary east-west highway.
The crashes were reported just after 8 a.m., about five hours after a storm that dropped a foot of snow finally moved out. Speed restrictions enacted during the storm had been lifted at 6 a.m., but motorists say the roadway was very slick.
Map of Pennsylvania, showing major cities and roads (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Pennsylvania’s increase in traffic deaths in 2012 was smaller than the rise nationwide — the first increase in U.S. fatalities since 2005, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported today.
The NHTSA reported a 3.3 percent increase in U.S. traffic fatalities for the year to 33,561 people killed, an increase of 1,082 from 2011.
Seventy-two percent of the increase — 778 of the 1,082 deaths — came in the first quarter of the year, and over half of those deaths were motorcyclists, bicyclists, pedestrians and other people not in vehicles, NHTSA reported. The agency noted that the first quarter of the year was also the warmest on record.
Map of Pennsylvania (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Statewide, the number of people killed in crashes has increased from 2011 but is the third lowest on record, the state Department of Transportation said Monday.
A press release issued by the department said that 1,310 people died in crashes in the state, an increase of 24 people from 2011.
The lowest recorded number of fatalities was 1,256 in 2009, PennDOT said.
Locally, the number of people killed on state roads has also increased.
Read more: http://republicanherald.com/news/number-of-those-killed-in-crashes-rose-in-2012-1.1469376
A city man was killed Thursday when he drove through a red light on Schuylkill Avenue at Buttonwood Street while talking on a cellphone and his car was hit broadside by a work van, authorities said.
Jose E. DeJesus Garcia, 53, who investigators said lived in the northwestern area of the city not far from the crash site, was pulled from the car by a nearby resident as the vehicle caught fire following the 8:25 a.m. accident. He died before police arrived.
Within minutes, police vehicles, firetrucks and ambulances filled a one-block area that was strewn with mangled vehicle parts. Firefighters quickly put out the burning car.
City detectives and evidence technicians responded along with patrol officers. The intersection was closed nearly four hours, slowing commuter traffic on other routes.
Some good news to report about the safety of America’s highways! In 2010 32,788 people died on the nation’s highways. This is down from 43,320 deaths in 2005, which represents a 25 percent decrease in five years.
In 1949 the U.S. population was less than half of what was reported in the 2010 census. The number of miles driven rose by 20.5 billion in 2010. With more cars and people on the nation’s highways than ever before, the fatality rate per 100 million miles was 1.09 in 2010 (a record low).
A big reason for the reduction of automotive fatalities is the use of seatbelts. Nationally, seatbelt usage stands at 85 percent, which is an all time high. Along with technology like anti-lock brakes, airbags and drunken driving crackdowns, seatbelt use has made a huge impact on driver safety.
Data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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I suppose this should not really be a great surprise for anyone but the Mercury’s condensed version of the Lebanon Daily News coverage of an accident on Route 322 in South Annville Township, that involved a Pottstown woman, has some key facts missing.
What the Mercury fails to point out is:
“Burton’s vehicle was pushed into the eastbound lane when it was struck from the rear by a Chevy Equinox driven by Amber Dumond, 32, of 117 E. Cherry St., Palmyra, he said.” The quote is from South Annville Township Police Chief Ben Sutcliffe
The Mercury tells us Burton’s children were in the car at the time of the accident. According to the Lebanon Daily News “Burton’s front-seat passenger was Elizabeth Hain, 36, also of Pottstown, Sutcliffe said. She was released after treatment at the hospital. In the back seat were Hain’s children, Dharia, 13, and Delanie, 7. Both were listed in fair condition at HMC, a hospital spokesman said.”
Here is the entire Lebanon Daily News article for you to read and get the correct information. A friend of Faith Burton’s brought this to my attention so we here in Pottstown have the correct information regarding this tragic event.
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