Accident I79 North of Pittsburgh
Nasty accident on I79 involving two semi trucks and a pickup truck towing a trailer.. Northbound near Zelienople PA WPXI NEWS Hope everyone is OK, news hasn't reported anything about conditio...
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TucsonJim wrote:
That's terrible looking. The truck pulling the fiver looks pretty tore up, but the passenger compartment might have been minimally impacted. Hoping that nobody was seriously hurt.
This is purely a guess, but it looks like the TV/FW might have been following too closely and hit the rear of the truck. But who knows, it might have been a lane change error by one of the other parties or 100 different reasons.
A big rig trucker is being blamed for the accident.
Traffic was slowing down due to a lane restriction (by the way the restriction is poorly marked and completely hidden by a blind curve) when a tractor-trailer slammed into a Jeep Liberty pushing the Liberty off the road. Trucker continued on and slammed into the rear of the camper pushing the the front end of the pickup into the rear of another semi. Mean while the first semi continued on to eventually veer off the road and UP an STEEP embankment hitting the southbound guard rails.
Two people from the pickup and one from the SUV were flown to nearby hospitals, truck drivers unhurt.
No info on how bad the injuries were.
Road was closed over 5 hrs.
No "need" to blame the folks who were driving the pickup, they were victims of being the monkey in the middle of a chain reaction.
Folks, as the summer travel and camping season is now ramping up please be careful!
