Two Dead in Crash that Closed Section of Interstate 80
TANNERSVILLE -- The Monroe County Coroner says a 61-year-old man from Allentown and a 12-year-old boy from the Poconos were the victims of tonight's deadly crash on Interstate 80.
The deadly wreck shut down the highway for several hours during rush hour on a Friday evening.
Interstate 80 was a virtual parking lot after a multi-vehicle crash shut down the highway for hours.
The crash happened in the west bound lanes around 4:30 on Friday afternoon near Tannersville and brought traffic to a standstill.
Sue Condreras and Leslie Dancossi were headed from Long Island to the fairgrounds up in Syracuse for a dog show.
“It`s not fun I`ll tell you that,” said Condreras. “I had to work this morning, we had to pack up the dogs, the motor home early this morning and we`re sitting there, it`s dead stopped, we must have sat for two hours without moving.”
“We have a van full of dogs, puppies, that wanted to eat and now they got to go potty,” said Dancossi.
The Monroe County Coroner says a 61-year-old man from Allentown was driving a box truck going east when he crossed into the west bound lanes, striking a Mercedes.
Both the 61-year-old man and 12-year-old boy from the Poconos who was in the Mercedes died at the scene.
The east and west bound lanes were closed for hours.
“Well that`s what, my partner was driving and i was trying to tell her that when it takes this long usually someone dies,” said Dancossi.
“We were coming from Allentown, we`re just headed to Tobyhanna, two hours, I got on in Bartonsville and two hours until we got here,” said Michelle Fairservice from Tobyhanna.
Nilsa Soto played Good Samaritan and brought a stranded driver who had run out of gas to a nearby gas station.
“I just gave the young man, he was without gas, he got stuck in the, and there`s a girl stuck up there too, she called for help, for the triple a but they can`t get to her because of the traffic,” said Soto.
State police say at this time the cause of the crash remains under investigation.
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Peggy Lee- Please consider pursuing another career. Your insensitivity, journalistic skills and instinct are severely lacking. Prayers to the families of those lost yesterday.
How can people complain about being Stuck in traffic when 3 people lost their lives in a crash. SMH think of how the people in the crash feel….?