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8-Year-Old Pedestrian Seriously Hurt In Pennsylvania Crash: Troopers 8-Year-Old Pedestrian Seriously Hurt In Pennsylvania Crash: Troopers
8-Year-Old Pedestrian Seriously Hurt In Pennsylvania Crash: Troopers State police are investigating the Lower Oxford Crash that sent an 8-year-old boy to the hospital on Monday, April 28, according to a release.  Troopers said the victim was struck near 251 Conner Road around 7 a.m. and seriously injured.  Investigators believe the unnamed 20-year-old driver was under the influence of drugs, according to the police report. He was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Matthew Seavey and taken to the Chester County Prison, authorities said.  Conner Road was shut down for three hours while police worked the scene.  This is the second…

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
High Teen Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter For Crash Killing PA Dad Of 3: Police High Teen Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter For Crash Killing PA Dad Of 3: Police
High Teen Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter For Crash Killing PA Dad Of 3: Police A 19-year-old woman is accused of being on a Schedule One drug when she crashed her car into two motorcyclists — killing a father of three, authorities announced on Tuesday.  Molly Elora Duffy of Elizabethtown appeared before Magisterial District Judge Randall L. Miller for both her preliminary arraignment and hearing around 9:15 a.m. on Nov. 7, court records show.  Duffy is accused of driving under the influence of a Schedule One drug when her sedan struck two motorcycles at the intersection of River and Turnpike roads in Conoy Township around 2:18 p.m. on Apr…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Drunk PA Dad On Cocaine, THC Sentenced For Killing Son In Crash: DA Drunk PA Dad On Cocaine, THC Sentenced For Killing Son In Crash: DA
Drunk PA Dad On Cocaine, THC Sentenced For Killing Son In Crash: DA A Central Pennsylvania father has been sentenced to serve several years behind bars for a DUI homicide that killed his son, authorities announced on Oct. 16. Larry K. Rapp, 64, of the 200 block of E. Front Streetman, admitted to being drunk and high while driving a white Ford Bronco and striking three trees— killing his 41-year-old son Chad Rapp on Prospect Road, in West Hempfield Township at approximately 1:17 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 3, Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams detailed in an updated release on Monday.  The police arrived and found the Bronco with "heavy front-end d…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Pick-Up Goes For Drive On Porch In Lancaster County (PHOTOS) Pick-Up Goes For Drive On Porch In Lancaster County (PHOTOS)
Pick-Up Goes For Drive On Porch In Lancaster County (Photos) A pick-up truck service vehicle was literally providing 'to-door' stops, but we doubt that's what the driver intended.  Officers found the white Ford F-150 parking hanging off someone's covered porch with its front bumper into a tree just before 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 7, according to a release by the Northern Lancaster County Regional Police.  The driver had "veered to the right as another vehicle in front of them slowed quickly at an intersecting" on Temperance Hill Road, the NLCRPD stated in a release the following afternoon.  The white Ford F-150 hanging off someone's porch and s…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
H2oi Rally Driver From PA Indicted In Crash That Killed 2, Injured 2 H2oi Rally Driver From PA Indicted In Crash That Killed 2, Injured 2
H2oi Rally Driver From PA Indicted In Crash That Killed 2, Injured 2 A Pennsylvania driver accused of killing two people during the unsanctioned H2oi car rally in Wildwood last fall has been indicted on 18 counts including vehicular homicide, NJ Advance Media reports. Gerald J. White, 37, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Delaware was allegedly fleeing another crash when he hit a Honda Civic and two pedestrians on Sept. 24, prosecutors have said. On Tuesday, Dec. 20, a grand jury sitting in Cape May County indicted White on charges of first-degree vehicular homicide, first-degree aggravated manslaughter, knowingly leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident…

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by Jon Craig
News
Veteran Police Officer Caused Deadly I-81 Crash, State Police Say Veteran Police Officer Caused Deadly I-81 Crash, State Police Say
Veteran Police Officer Caused Deadly I-81 Crash, State Police Say A 20-year veteran of a local police force in Pennsylvania caused a deadly crash along Interstate 81 on Monday, Apr. 11, authorities say. The crash happened on I-81 southbound at mile marker 65.5, Susquehanna Township around 9 a.m., according to a release by Pennsylvania state police. A 2007 Nissan Diesel driven by Syla James Pope was disabled on the side of the road and a road service technician Jeffery Hanwell came to assist him in a 2012 Ford F350, the release shows. A 2019 Dodge Ram 1500 driven by Keith William Morris went over the fog line hitting the Nissan in the rear propelling all …

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by Jillian Pikora