LANGHORNE, Pa. -
One driver wreaked havoc on U.S. Route 1 in Bucks County on
Monday morning, police say.
SkyFOX was over the mess in Langhorne that resulted from three
crashes, including one that sent a tractor-trailer slamming right into a home.
It took police and fire more than five hours to remove a
tractor-trailer from one home, and luckily no one was inside at the time of the
crash Monday morning. But police say that this and two other accidents are all
linked together, and happened almost like a domino effect, FOX 29's Stephanie Salvatore
reported.
You can still see the tire tracks left just seconds before
this bizarre accident. A tractor-trailer wound up in someone's home after
swerving away from a car on the other side of the highway.
Police tell us a silver Chrysler had been weaving his way
through traffic while traveling southbound on Route 1 near Hulmeville Road.
The driver of the tractor-trailer, Bear Shelby, said the car
tried to pass him near an entrance ramp but instead clipped the rear of his
truck, sending him over the median and across the northbound lanes.
Shelby said that by the time he got his steering back, the
only thing left for him to do was unhook his seatbelt off, dive for the floor
and steer past a pole.
Less than 200 yards past where Shelby's tractor trailer went
off the road, the same car actually hit another tractor-trailer, this time ending
up lodged underneath of it.
SkyFOX showed that the car was stuck under the rig and by
its back tires.
A neighbor heard that accident first and called for help.
As if these two accidents weren't enough, there was a third.
Shelby's tractor-trailer nearly hit a Jeep as it was crossing over the
northbound lanes. The Jeep's driver backed up to see the accident behind him
but hit a guardrail, flipping his Jeep several times.
There were initial reports of persons trapped in vehicles, and police say there were two injuries, but remarkably neither
was said to be serious.
The southbound closure after the crash around 10:45 a.m. began
at Route 413 Bellevue Avenue, but it was lifted shortly after noon.
The house actually was shifted several feet off the
foundation, and what took so long to get the tractor-trailer out was that the
front part was actually partially in the basement.
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