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Richard Weatherspoon

Driver In Tractor Trailer Crash That Closed Rt. 22 For Hours Faces Numerous Citations Driver In Tractor Trailer Crash That Closed Rt. 22 For Hours Faces Numerous Citations
Driver In Tractor Trailer Crash That Closed Rt. 22 For Hours Faces Numerous Citations A trucker was cited by state police after his tractor trailer overturned on a Lehigh County on-ramp on Monday, July 3, authorities say.  It happened at the Route 22 west on-ramp from Cedar Crest Boulevard in South Whitehall, troopers wrote in a police report.  The driver, in a "commercial vehicle carrying waste," failed to negotiate the ramp and flipped the truck, "spilling the waste across all lanes of travel," police said.  Troopers said 52-year-old Richard Weatherspoon of Allentown was was driving the truck "at a high rate of speed" and "is at fault for the crash." He rec…