Three people hurt in I-78 toll plaza crash

Three people were hurt Sunday morning in a four-car crash at the Interstate 78 toll plaza in Northampton County, state police said.

A 51-year-old man from Blakeslee, Monroe County, “sustained numerous injuries,” according to a news release from state police, and was transported to St. Luke’s University Hospital in Fountain Hill.

A 55-year-old woman from Kernersville, North Carolina, and her passenger, a 30-yearold woman, also of Kernersville, sustained minor injuries and were taken to St. Luke’s Hospital-Anderson Campus in Bethlehem Township for evaluation and treatment.

Troopers did not release the names, nor the conditions, of those involved.

According to state police: At 8:39 a.m., the Blakeslee man’s vehicle crashed into another car waiting in the second lane to pay a toll near mile marker 76 in Williams Township.

The man was “traveling at a high rate of speed,” troopers said, hitting the car with the pair from North Carolina and “became airborne,” rotating in a half-circle before landing on top of that vehicle.

The impact caused that car to rear-end a third car, which held two people from Shirley, New York. That car then hit a fourth — a 58-year-old New Jersey man who was stopped and paying the toll.

Three of the vehicles were towed from the plaza; the fourth car hit was driven from the crash site.

In addition to state police, Dewey Fire Company, Easton Emergency Squad, Suburban EMS, volunteer fire companies from Bethlehem and Williams townships, Easton Fire Department and towing company Fast Lane also responded.