Turnpike crashes
State police reported the following crashes on the Pennsylvania Turnpike:
• A Tamaqua man was cited for careless driving after a two-vehicle crash at 10:48 a.m. Sept. 27.
State police at the King of Prussia barracks said it happened in Lower Milford Township when Brian W. Ives, 35, was driving a 2009 Toyota Highlander southbound. Police said he became distracted when he started to utilize his cellphone and the Highlander struck the rear of a turnpike vehicle, a 2011 Mack Truck that was towing a traffic attenuator while setting a slow pace for a construction project that was taking place about seven miles south of the crash location. It was driven by Brian F. Doyle, 62, of Levittown.
No one was injured in the incident.
Police said the Highlander sustained disabling damages and was towed from the scene.
Ives was also issued a warning for cellphone use.
• Jamie S. Mynes, 18, of Hanover Township, escaped injuries in a one-vehicle crash at 7:07 a.m. Sept. 6 on the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
State police at the Pocono barracks said it happened in Penn Forest Township when Mynes, driving a 2012 Hyundai Sonata, was southbound. The car struck the center concrete barriers with its left front bumper, then continues south until it struck a guide rail on the shoulder of the road before rotating counterclockwise and coming to rest on the shoulder of the road facing north.
He was cited for the crash.
• A Carbon County driver was involved in a one-vehicle crash along the Northeast Extension. State police at the Pocono barracks said the crash occurred at 12:55 p.m. on Tuesday in East Penn Township, Carbon County.
Troopers said Grace K. Shanton, 23, of Lehighton, was driving a 2013 Honda Civic northbound in the right lane when she lost control on the wet roadway. The vehicle then struck the center concrete median wall with its left front corner. The vehicle then defected off the wall and across both lanes of travel and rotated 180 degrees. The vehicle came to rest facing south along the east shoulder.
Shanton was not injured. She was cited for driving a vehicle at an unsafe speed.