TodayDickinson crash hurts 1, men in 2nd car flee
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Article RatingA Dickinson Township crash Friday afternoon left a Gardners woman injured and police searching for the occupants of the car that hit her.
Trooper Adam Reed said Angela Callahan, 24, had been driving south on Route 34 in a black Geo Tracker when a green Buick Century coming from Peach Glen Road pulled out in front of her shortly before 3:30 p.m., according to motorists who witnessed the crash.
Both vehicles were disabled, and Reed said witnesses reported four Hispanic males got out of the Century and fled down Peach Glen Road in another vehicle.
“There was nobody in that car by the time we got here,” said Greg Bretzman, assistant chief of Dickinson Township’s fire department. Standing in front of Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church as crews started cleaning up the mess, Bretzman pulled down the trunk of the Century, revealing California license plates.
Callahan, Bretzman said, had been pinned by the door and steering column and had to be cut out of the vehicle.
“She was responsive,” Reed said of Callahan, who was flown to Hershey Medical Center by a helicopter that landed at the old South Dickinson Elementary School. Hospital officials said Callahan was in satisfactory condition Friday evening.
As for the men, Reed said he could provide no further details but that police were doing their best to locate them.
“Traffic was backed up all the way to my home,” said Amanda Hershey, who lives nearby and came out to see what was causing the delay. The intersection is dangerous, she said, but she doesn’t remember having seen any other accidents there lately.
Fire police started letting traffic through the intersection about 4:30 p.m., after Callahan had left the scene. Sitting in traffic about 10 cars back from the intersection, area resident Jennifer Miner opened her window to ask what cars were involved.
“I want to be sure it wasn’t my sister,” said Miner, who was relieved to hear that neither of the cars were the kind her sister drives. Miner drives through the intersection regularly, she said, and always does so with care because of the area’s geography.
“You can’t see anything, turning left this way,” Miner said.
No further information was available by press time.
