A rollover crash in Bucks County early Saturday morning shut down a portion of Route 413 and sent five people to area hospitals.
The intersection of Route 413 and State Road remained shut down in the early hours Saturday in the aftermath of the crash. Officials said they were in the process of reopening the road about 9:30 a.m.
In the crash, a driver lost control of the car, and it flipped several times before coming to rest on a grassy patch off the road. Five people were injured, but it was unclear how seriously. Authorities said three of the injured were taken to Aria Health's Torresdale hospital, while two others were taken to St. Mary Medical Center.
A mother and daughter drowned in the Delaware River near New Jersey's Bull's Island State Park Friday night after they fell from their kayak into the water, officials said Saturday.
Rescue crews were called for the two kayakers in distress at 8:16 p.m., and multiple police and fire agencies responded to the location in the water, which is just northwest of Stockton, N.J., according to Hunterdon County Prosecutor Anthony P. Kearns III.
At 8:29 p.m., rescuers pulled one of the women from the river, but were unable to revive her. The second victim was recovered later on the Pennsylvania side of the river, also dead, officials said.
The victims have been identified as Doris Rake, 45, and her daughter, Kathryn Haney, 19, of Raritan Township, about 12 miles northeast of Bull's Island.
"Apparently the pair were experienced kayakers and were not wearing personal flotation devices," Kearns said in a statement. "This is a terrible tragedy and our condolences go out to their friends and family."
Several people were hurt during a boat crash in Long Beach Township, New Jersey Saturday afternoon.
The accident occurred in the Manahawkin Bay near the Holgate Marina on Tebco Terrace around 1:40 p.m.
Officials say 13 people were on board a 53-foot sport fisher that ran aground. Four people suffered non-life-threatening head and neck injuries. One victim was airlifted to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center while three people were taken to the Southern Ocean Medical Center.
A portion of the Northeast Extension (I-476) will be closed overnight due to construction.
I-476 will be closed and detoured northbound and southbound from 12:01 a.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Sunday between the Lansdale (Exit 31) and Lehigh Valley (Exit 56) interchanges. Crews will work on the two overhead bridges that cross I-476 at milepost A35.2 (Morwood Road) and A56.0 (ramp-bridge at the Allentown Service Plaza).
The right lane was closed northbound and southbound on both bridges at milepost A55-A57 at 9 p.m. and milepost A34-A38 at 11 p.m. The speed limit will also be posted at 55 mph until the single-lane patterns are lifted by 9 a.m. Sunday morning.
The Allentown Service Plaza will be closed in both directions at 11 p.m. until the Interchange reopens.
Suggested detours during the closure:
Traveling northbound on I-476: Exit at the Lansdale Interchange (Exit #31) – turn left on State Route 63 (Sumneytown Pike), left on Forty Foot Rd (0.2 mile) and right on Main Street/Welsh Road (1.7 miles). Follow State Route 63 east to U.S. Route 309 north (6.4 miles) to I-78 west / U.S. Route 309 (28.3 miles). Take the U.S. Route 309-North Exit #53 (6.1 miles) to U.S. Route 22 west (1.8 miles). This will bring you to the Lehigh Valley Interchange (0.8 mile).
Traveling southbound on I-476: Exit at the Lehigh Valley Interchange (Exit #56) - follow U.S. Route 22 east to State Route 309 south (0.8 mile) to Interstate 78 east / State Route 309 south (1.8 miles). Take the State Route 309 south Exit #60 (6.4 miles). This will bring you to the Fort Washington Interchange (40.5 miles) to continue on I-276 east to Philadelphia/New Jersey or west to the Mid-County interchange to enter the Blue Route (I-476 south).
A woman and a man were killed and two other people were hurt in a car crash in Atlantic County Saturday night.
Police say two cars collided on State Highway 49 at 1st Avenue in Estell Manor around 7 p.m.
A woman was pronounced dead at the scene while another man was pronounced dead at the hospital. Two other people were injured. Police have not yet revealed their conditions.
A fast-moving fire in New Jersey early Saturday morning left two people dead, four people injured and more than two dozen people homeless authorities said.
The fire started just after 3:30 a.m. on the upper floors of a building on East 21st Street in Bayonne and quickly gutted the three-story, multi-family residence before firefighters were able to get the blaze under control.
Robert Angelini, 64, and his 65 year-old wife Frances were killed in the fire, police said.
Firefighters were able to rescue five people still inside the building when they arrived, officials said.
Four people, including a 6-year-old child and an 89-year-old woman were hospital zed with various injuries, police said.
"I couldn't see, couldn't breathe, it was probably the scariest thing in my life," said Daniel Conway, whose home was destroyed in the blaze.
The Red Cross said they were assisting four families displaced by the fire and an additional four families who were evacuated from an adjacent building as a precaution.
No word yet on what caused the blaze. An investigation is ongoing
Officials are searching for an entangled humpback whale that was spotted at the Jersey Shore.
The whale was spotted Friday afternoon about two miles east of Sandy Hook. The sighting was not immediately reported however according to Danielle Browne, a Field Stranding Technician with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center. Officials say they are unsure of the whale’s location.
The whale is dragging a yellow trap buoy and a yellow flag. Officials believe a rope is attached to its pectoral fin and the buoy is 20-feet back from its tail and can only be seen whenever the whale drives.
The Facebook group Gotham Whale posted photos of the entangled whale in hopes of getting the mammal help.
If you see the whale, do not approach it or try to remove the equipment. Instead report the sighting to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center at 609-266-0538 or NOAA at 1-866-755-6622.
A driver was killed by a falling tree in New Jersey Friday morning, according to authorities.
The 50-year-old woman was driving her Jeep Cherokee on Brookside Drive in Verona when a tree smashed into the vehicle, the prosecutor's office said.
The woman, identified as Susan E. Niler, was taken to Morristown Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, She was alone in her vehicle at the time, authorities said.
It's not clear what caused the tree to fall.
Earlier this month, a 21-year-old college student walking to her car outside her home in New Milford was killed when a tree split in half during a storm and struck her.
On Tuesday, a giant 200-year-old oak tree smashed into two vehicles parked in a driveway in Summit, about 13 miles south of Verona. The trunk of the tree appeared to be rotted in that case, and neighbors said it was a good reminder to check on the conditions of their trees as summer storms arrive.
A man died just minutes after getting a phone call asking him to come outside his Philadelphia home.
The yet-to-identified victim’s family members told police that he left his children off with a relative saying he got a call and needed to go out. Within five minutes a gunman shot the 29-year-old man five times in the torso along the 3400 block of Crowell Street in the city’s Hunting Park section, said investigators.
Someone flagged down officers patrolling the area around 11:15 p.m. Saturday and told them there was a body in the street. Officers then found the man dead not far from his home.
Witnesses told investigators that they saw someone running away before hopping into a gold van and fleeing the scene.
This wasn’t the only deadly shooting overnight. Early Sunday, a 35-year-old man was shot in the head at a playground along the 1200 block of S 30th Street in the city’s Grays Ferry section. Police found drugs at the homicide scene, said investigators.
Anyone with information on either shooting is asked to contact Philadelphia Police.
