The driver of a truck that ran into a trailer carrying a steel beam was flown to Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown, Pa., on Friday morning, August 23 with serious injuries after the accident.
The accident happened around 8 a.m. in the area of Creek Road and Sandy Mile Road west of Hancock.
According to Sgt. Carly Hose of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, the pickup truck drove through road closure signs and into a metal beam loaded onto the back of a tractor-trailer.
Hose said the pickup did not strike the trailer, just the beam.
A picture of the crash scene reviewed by The Hancock News shows the beam taking up the full length of the truck cab. The windshield on the truck is missing and it appears that the roof of the cab had been pushed back to the bed of the truck.
Trooper 5, Maryland State Police’s medical helicopter, flew the man to the Johnstown hospital for treatment of his injuries.
No other information about the incident or the condition of the driver was available at the time of this report.
