Recent Incidents
Fire Police Assist At Manheim Twp. Fatal MVA
August 28th, 2007, 12:15 PM
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Collision with big rig kills 2 women
BY BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Intelligencer Journal Staff
A Lancaster County woman and her mother were killed in Manheim
Township when a violent head-on impact with a tractor-trailer crushed
their pick-up truck Tuesday afternoon, police said.
Mary Hoover, 46, of Manor Township and Esther Hoover, 77, of West
Lampeter Township were in a Ford pickup truck that collided with a
tractor-trailer on Oregon Pike near the intersection with St. Thomas
Road, police said. A section of Oregon Pike was closed for nearly six
hours.
Both victims died instantly in the 12:15 p.m. crash, investigators said.
"This was a horrific crash," Manheim Township police Sgt. Tom
Rudzinski said. "The pickup truck was extremely mangled into the front
of the tractor-trailer."
Police did not release any information Tuesday about the truck
driver or about who may have been at fault in the crash. They did say
the trucker, whose rig displayed a New York license plate, was
uninjured.
Mary Hoover was driving the pickup south on Oregon Pike when it and the northbound tractor-trailer collided, police said.
It was clear one of the two vehicles had crossed the center line,
but Rudzinski said police need to conduct more interviews with
witnesses and process more evidence before making a final determination
of which one it was.
The Hoovers were extricated from the pickup after a Lancaster County
deputy coroner pronounced them dead, he said. The extrications took
about an hour.
"Removing the victims was very tedious, and putting back together (what happened) will be just as tedious," Rudzinski said.
Eden and Neffsville firefighters were at the scene for about four
hours, Kane said. The portion of Oregon Pike from Landis Valley Road to
the Route 222 interchange was re-opened about 6 p.m., he said.
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