NO INJURIES, ONLY MINOR DAMAGE – Occasionally violent thunderstorms, heavy rains and sporadic winds made local driving an adventure during the just-ended Easter holiday weekend. Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township police responded Saturday (April 23, 2011) to the scene of yet another vehicle that wound up in a drainage ditch at the curve on the south side of North Pleasant View Road in front of the entrance to the former Saylor’s farm, between Donna Lane and North Sanatoga Road. Most drivers caught here travel a little too quickly down the hill south from Sanatoga Road, most often under wet or icy conditions, and fail to negotiate the curve. The young driver in Saturday’s incident (above) was startled but not injured. His car received relatively minor damage (corner bottom right), was quickly towed out of the ditch (corner bottom left). He was able to drive away.
The Pruss Hill Road hollow once again is the scene of mangled guard rails due to another speeding through the curves accident.
Seems this is a regular occurrence and it would be interesting to know who is mangling the rails here. Are these locals or are they (as I suspect) commuters racing through on their way to Hanover or Gilbertsville or beyond?
I drive around 25 through here. Had on more than one occasion an impatient driver run down and nearly plow into me. I often wonder how fast folks must be going to do the kind of damage to those railings that they do …