Fern Ridge police report on recent crashes
Fern Ridge State Police reported the following crashes:
• Four people, including two children, were injured in a two-vehicle crash at 8:21 a.m. Dec. 12 at the intersection of Countryside and Edgewood drives in Chestnuthill Township.
Police said both drivers, as well as a child passenger in each vehicle were injured.
The drivers were Nora Velez, 61, and Kara R. Walters, 34, both of Brodheadsville. Police said the severity of their injuries is not known.
Sustaining what police called suspected minor injuries were a 9-year-old boy from Brodheadsville, who was a passenger with Velez, and a 4-year-old boy, also from Brodheadsville, who was a passenger with Walters.
Police did not provide the details of the incident.
The West End Community Ambulance responded to the scene.
• Andrew W. Catanese, 24, of Stroudsburg, was cited for failure to drive at a safe speed after a one-vehicle crash at 9:52 p.m. Nov. 27 on Mountain Road in Jackson Township. He was not injured.
Police said he was driving a 1998 Subaru Forester eastbound when he came upon utility lines that were down on the highway. Police said he swerved to attempt to avoid striking the lines, however the vehicle made contact with them and traveled off the right side of the road, where it struck several trees. The car came to rest upon a metal post and sustained disabling damages that required it to be towed from the scene.
• The drivers of vehicles involved in a crash at 7:09 p.m. Dec. 11 at the intersection of Route 715 and Mountain Road in Jackson Township were both injured.
Police did not provide the details of the incident but said Brian Green, 59, of Stroudsburg, and Douglas D. Massi, 42, of Saylorsburg, were both injured. Police said Green suffered suspected minor injuries while the severity of Massi’s injuries was not known.
A passenger in each vehicle, Tracey Witten, 45, of Stroudsburg, who was with Green, and an 11-year-old boy from Saylorsburg, who was with Massi, were not injuries.
The West End Community Ambulance responded to the scene.
• Heather Y. Murray, 20, of Spring, Texas, was injured when she was thrown from a vehicle that crashed on interstate 80 in Kidder Township at 10:50 a.m. Dec. 1. Police said she was transported to the Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono, East Stroudsburg, by the West End Fire and Rescue Company. Police said she sustained minor injuries.
Police said she was a passenger in a 2003 Toyota 4-Runner driven by Kareen J. Harris, 21, also of Spring. Police said he was traveling westbound and was traveling too fast for conditions when the vehicle failed to negotiate a right curve and went off the left shoulder of the road, striking an embankment. The vehicle rolled over twice and landed on its four wheels.
• Sarah E. Evans, 32, of Reinholds, was injured in a two-vehicle crash at 12:10 p.m. Nov. 29 on Route 903 in Penn Forest Township.
She was transported to the Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, Salisbury Township, in the Lehighton Ambulance.
Police said she was driving a 2017 Honda that struck the front driver’s side quarter panel of a 2006 Chrysler PT Cruiser that was being driven by John Crilley, 74, of Effort. He was not injured.
Police said Crilley was attempting to enter the roadway just north of Old Stage Road when he failed to yield the right of way to the Evans vehicle, causing the crash.
Evans was cited in the incident.
Both vehicles were towed from the scene.
• Two vehicles were towed from a crash scene at 12:48 p.m. Dec. 15, on Route 209 in Chestnuthill Township.
Police said a 2018 Nissan Altima operated by Scott G. Feller, 92, of Palmerton, traveling southbound, attempted to turn left onto Fairground Road and entered the path of a northbound 2014 Toyota Corolla driven by Samantha A. Cole, 22, of Kunkletown, striking it on the passenger side. No one was injured.
• Aaron R. Sheradin, 25, of Saylorsburg, escaped injuries in a crash at 7:07 p.m. Nov. 26 on Route 715 in Chestnuthill Township.
Police said he was driving a 1994 Mercury Cougar that failed to negotiate a curve in the roadway and crashed. It was towed from the scene.
Police said Sheradin was cited for the incident.