Crime & Safety
I-95 In Bucks Co. Reopened After Major Crash
A tractor-trailer driver received major injuries in the early-morning crash, after his truck hit a car near the Street Road exit.
BENSALEM, PA — A truck driver had major injuries and I-95 was shut down for about eight hours on Tuesday after a tractor-trailer and a car crashed in the early-morning hours.
Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Nathan Branosky said the crash happened at 4:13 a.m. between the Bristol and Street Road exits.
Branosky said earlier media reports that someone had died in the crash were inaccurate. But, he said, the man driving the tractor-trailer had major injuries and the woman driving the car had minor injuries.
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By early afternoon, a state police unit remained on the scene, investigating the cause of the crash. Branosky said the highway was finally reopened at 12:19 p.m., more than eight hours after the crash happened.
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