Pennsylvania Roadways Can Be Dangerous...

If asked, most Pennsylvania residents would say that they understand that the potential for an accident is present every time they drive their cars on Pennsylvania roadways. However, most of us do not fully consider that potential every time we hop into our vehicles to go to work, to the store, on an outing, or to take the kids to school. One Pennsylvania couple was vividly reminded of that reality this week when they witnessed an accident in a Pennsylvania township that involved a tanker truck and sent the driver of a car to the hospital. According to eyewitnesses, the accident happened when the elderly driver of a car failed to stop when entering Route 220 from Wolcott Hollow Road in Athens Township. The car crashed into a tanker truck that was loaded with 2,500 gallons of diesel at the time of the accident. The truck rolled over two times before coming to a stop in the middle of Route 220, where it began leaking fuel onto the roadway. The couple that witnessed the accident was reminded by Pennsylvania State Troopers that had it not been for the tanker truck driving in the opposite lane, they would most likely have been involved in the accident as they would have been in the car’s path. As it was, the car that the couple was driving in narrowly missed being involved in the accident as the tanker truck barely missed the vehicle as it flipped over. The accident closed Pennsylvania Route 220 for nearly seven hours as workers responded to the accident victims and then cleared the roadway. The name of the car driver had not yet been released at the time of the news report, nor was it clear if any charges were going to...