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PennLive.com
April 3, 2018
Two national transportation groups that are seeking $6 billion in refunds from the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission are now asking federal judge to block the use of tolls for non-turnpike projects. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association and the National Motorists Association filed a requestÃâà...
Tribune-Review
March 31, 2018
Two weeks ago, a coalition of truckers and motorists advocates filed a class action suit against the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, PennDOT and Gov. Tom Wolf, seeking to recoup "excessive fees" that went to underwrite projects other than the operation of the turnpike. Such fees, they claimed, were aÃâà...
WTAE Pittsburgh
March 26, 2018
State police arrested a woman on drug charges after allegedly finding approximately 100 packages of marijuana in her rental vehicle on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Facing two counts is Tru Yang, 54, of St. Paul, Minn. She was arrested Friday afternoon following a traffic stop in Mt. Pleasant Township,Ãâà...
Lebanon Daily News
March 24, 2018
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) on Friday announced that technology and equipment installations are on track for the Cashless Tolling pilot projects on the Findlay Connector section of the Southern Beltway (PA Turnpike 576) in Washington and Allegheny counties and at the Clarks SummitÃâà...
Tribune-Review
March 23, 2018
A section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Allegheny and Washington counties known as the Findlay Connector will no longer accept cash payments starting April 29, the Turnpike Commission said Friday. E-ZPass will not be affected by the change. Drivers without E-ZPass will receive a bill in the mail afterÃâà...
6abc.com
March 23, 2018
All lanes are back open on the Pennsylvania Turnpike after a fiery dump truck crash in Montgomery County. The incident happened after 5:30 a.m. Friday in the westbound lanes approaching the exit for Route 611 in Willow Grove. Action News is told a dump truck struck a barrier wall at an underpass andÃâà...
Allentown Morning Call
March 20, 2018
The Pennsylvania Turnpike will impose a travel ban on certain vehicles in advance of today's expected snowstorm. The ban will start at 8 p.m. today. (Morning Call file photo). Morning Call Staff. The Pennsylvania Turnpike and PennDOT have announced travel restrictions in anticipation of the snow storm that is expected toÃâà...
Tribune-Review
March 15, 2018
One person was reported injured Thursday night in a crash along the Pennsylvania Turnpike about a mile east of the Monroeville exit when the vehicle rolled over, state police said. The person had to be freed from the vehicle, which crashed off of the eastbound lanes of the highway at about 8:35 p.m., theÃâà...
Tribune-Review
March 14, 2018
A Washington County man was sentenced to three years of federal probation for illegally obtaining contracts for bridge projects from PennDOT and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady. U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer on TuesdayÃâà...
CBS Philly
March 14, 2018
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A police officer was involved in a multi-vehicle accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Wednesday morning. The four-vehicle accident involving a police officer and a tractor-trailer happened at the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension southbound approaching I-276.
lehighvalleylive.com
March 3, 2018
A 2-month-old boy from western Pennsylvania was killed in a crash Thursday night on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension (Interstate 476), authorities said. John Simko Jr. was a passenger in a car that collided with a tractor-trailer and the highway's concrete median around 10:30 p.m., theÃâà...
WPXI Pittsburgh
March 1, 2018
A traffic stop on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Westmoreland County resulted in another big find for state police on Wednesday. Inside a car driven by a man named Anthony Lewis, a trooper with the SHIELD team allegedly found 72 grams of crack cocaine, seven grams of raw heroin, powder cocaine andÃâà...
Allentown Morning Call
February 26, 2018
Pennsylvania Turnpike working with feds in investigation of Lehigh Tunnel death. Truck driver killed by .... A truck driver for Raymour & Flanigan was killed when an electrical conduit fell from the ceiling of the Lehigh Tunnel on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018.
lehighvalleylive.com
February 24, 2018
The final tunnel completed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike became the site of a deadly accident Wednesday night. An electrical conduit broke free from the roof of the southbound Lehigh Tunnel, falling through a windshield and killing Howard M. Sexton, a 70-year-old truck driver from New Jersey.
6abc.com
February 22, 2018
A Gloucester County, New Jersey man was killed after an electrical beam collapsed onto several vehicles in the Lehigh Tunnel in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension remains closed Thursday morning because of the incident. The beam fell inside theÃâà...
NBC 10 Philadelphia
February 22, 2018
... that lasted into the morning. The big rig was heading southbound through the Lehigh Tunnel of the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike around 6 p.m. Wednesday when the metal conduit from the ceiling area crashed through the vehicle's windshield, Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim said.
NBC 10 Philadelphia
February 21, 2018
Truck Wreck Closes Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension, 5 Hurt. By Dan Stamm. Published at 11:33 AM EST on Feb 21, 2018 | Updated at 2:32 PM EST on Feb 21, 2018Ãâà...
Curbed Philly
February 20, 2018
A $1.1 billion project that is expected to wrap in the late summer or early fall of 2018 will seamlessly link I-95 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Bucks County just north of Philadelphia. The connection has been 49 years in the making. Construction of I-95 from Florida to Maine wrapped in 1969, but anÃâà...
Allentown Morning Call
December 31, 1999
Pennsylvania will ban certain kinds of vehicles from several major highways as a major nor'easter moves in, according to a statement from Gov. Tom Wolf's office. Empty straight trucks, large combination vehicles (tandem trailers and double trailers), tractors hauling empty trailers, trailers pulled byÃâà...
Tribune-Review
December 31, 1999
A crash involving multiple vehicles closed one westbound lane of the Pennsylvania Turnpike for just more than an hour Wednesday morning, authorities said. An Allegheny County 911 supervisor said firefighters and medics were called to the crash in Plum at about 6:30 a.m. State police said multipleÃâà...
Tribune-Review
December 31, 1999
A crash involving a tractor-trailer and an overturned box truck briefly blocked all westbound lanes and snarled traffic on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near New Stanton Tuesday morning, authorities said. A Westmoreland County 911 supervisor said the crash was reported just after 5 a.m. Tuesday. No oneÃâà...
