Pa Welcome center EB on I-70?

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  1. outerspacehillbilly

    outerspacehillbilly "Instigator of the Legend"

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    Anybody know what happened Early yesterday morning/late thursday night at the EB Welcome center rest area in PA on I-70? I went by there about 1 am yesterday morning and 2 trucks were on fire and looked like they had collided on the ramp? They were still cleaning up the mess when I came back through around 11 am. I can't find anything on it though. Someone on the radio said that both drivers had died.
     
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  3. canuck in da truck

    canuck in da truck Road Train Member

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    2 Dead After Fiery Tractor Trailer Crash On I-70

    May 27, 2011 12:48 PM
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    [​IMG] Reporting Heather Abraham

    DONEGAL TOWNSHIP (KDKA) ' A fiery crash involving four tractor trailers at a welcome center along Interstate 70 in Washington County claimed the lives of a man and woman overnight.
    The accident happened on a ramp at the I-70 welcome center in Donegal.
    Given the damage, state police say it will be hard to figure out what really happened, but have been able to piece together some details. Around 11:30 p.m., a truck was attempting to exit at the welcome center along the eastbound side of I-70. Another truck clipped the back of it, losing control.
    "Maybe the driver was unattentive and didn't recognize how much the other vehicle had slowed down, and that's the initial impact that caused this chain reaction," said Trooper Jon Christy, of the state police.


    Two parked tractor trailer rigs were also hit and damaged in the accident.
    The driver of one of those tractor trailers, David, said he had just woken up and looked in the side view mirror only to find the truck heading straight for him. He said he felt lucky to be alive.
    Meanwhile, authorities have not identified the man and woman who were killed in the crash, but say they were from Missouri. They were riding in the tractor trailer that crashed into the three others and then caught fire. One may have been ejected from the vehicle and the other was trapped inside.


    "The guy [was] screaming in the truck, I heard him and we tried getting him out," said Greg Lagana, a truck driver. "There was nothing that we could do to get him out and when I realized that we tried to move the trucks so nothing else could catch on fire and made sure that everybody else involved was all right."
    State police in Washington County are investigating the crash.


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  4. outerspacehillbilly

    outerspacehillbilly "Instigator of the Legend"

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    Yeah I knew it looked pretty bad, thanks for the links guys.
     
  5. canuck in da truck

    canuck in da truck Road Train Member

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    sounds like there was a line of parked trucks on the exit ramp
    i hate parking on any ramp---but we are always told there are more than enough parking spots accross the country---they must be counting them around noon i guess---cause at 0200 lots of areas you cant find a spot to park a vw let alone a truck and trailer
     
  6. outerspacehillbilly

    outerspacehillbilly "Instigator of the Legend"

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    Yeah the ramp was full. We cam by just shortly after it had happened, according to the news article it happened shortly before midnight and we cam through some where between 12 and 1 am. It looked pretty bad I gotta say, I'm kind of surprised that only 2 people died.
     
  7. canuck in da truck

    canuck in da truck Road Train Member

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    gives you a bad feeling in the stomach when you see something like that
     
  8. outerspacehillbilly

    outerspacehillbilly "Instigator of the Legend"

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    Yes it does. Seen way to many of those types of things in my short 11 years out here.
     
  9. roy d mercer

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    donegal is on the pa pike, they would have been entering the service plaza there? no reason to park on ramp on the pa pike there are pull offs everywhere along the pike
     
  10. Roadmedic

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    It happened in Washington County on 70 where they sometimes set up the scale on 70.
     
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