Fire Rescue News - Four injured after truck hits SUV on Delilah Road in Egg Harbor Township
From Press staff reports | Posted: Thursday, July 15, 2010 | 1 comment
Four people were injured, one seriously, on Thursday after a delivery truck pushed another vehicle into oncoming traffic on Delilah Road in Egg Harbor Township, officials said.
The accident happened about 12:20 p.m. between Fire Road and Eagon Avenue.
Township police said Christopher M. Wallace, 33, of Paoli, Pa., was driving west on....Continue Reading
Call Recording (Starts with Structure Fire Tone Out)
This is a VOX recording. It is condensed and not in real time.
Delilah road when his delivery truck struck the back of a sport utility vehicle driven by Craig A. Hammon, 41, of New Haven, Ind. The bigger truck pushed Hammon’s vehicle into the eastbound lane, where it was struck by another SUV driven by Elizabeth Y. Wang, 40, of Egg Harbor Township.
Hammon’s passenger, Louisa Marsheutz, 77, of Brigantine, was trapped in the vehicle. Firefighters removed her using hydraulic equipment and took her to a waiting SouthStar medical helicopter. She was flown to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, City Campus, in Atlantic City. She did not want her medical condition released, a nursing supervisor said.
Wang, Wallace and Hammon were treated at the scene by ambulance squads from Absecon, Egg Harbor Township and AtlantiCare and were taken by ambulance to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Mainland Campus, in Galloway Township, police said.
Police cited Wallace for careless driving.
Fire companies from Farmington, Cardiff, Bargaintown and Atlantic City International Airport responded to the crash scene.
Farmington Fire Capt. Dennis Sharpe was responding to the fire station for an unrelated incident when he and the company’s safety officer came upon the accident.
“The impact created a debris field 300 yards long,” Sharpe said.
Delilah Road was closed for more than two hours while crews worked. The Atlantic County Hazardous Materials team had to siphon gasoline out of a stormwater drain after it spilled from a ruptured gas tank in one of the two SUVs damaged in the crash.
The accident happened two days after a crash 2 miles away at Tilton and Fire roads that killed a teen from New York and hurt five others.
Egg Harbor Township police officers Brian Dickson, Robert Moran, and Kevin Devlin investigated Thursday’s crash.
