Lower Pottsgrove police said a so-far-unidentified driver and sole occupant of a vehicle traveling Friday night on eastbound U.S. Route 422 was killed after it overturned. The highway was closed for about 2-1/2 hours.
One of the vehicles involved Wednesday in a two-vehicle accident on eastbound U.S. Route 422, east of Armand Hammer Boulevard, rolled over five times before coming to a stop, emergency dispatchers said.
Emergency dispatchers sent local firefighters and other responders Wednesday at about 8 p.m. to the scene of a fiery tractor-trailer accident on U.S. Route 422 West near South Sanatoga Road.
The car's owner, who discovered the problem in the 1900 block of East High Street, extinguished the fire and removed smoking fiber material from the engine compartment before firefighters arrived.
Eight separate pieces of apparatus from the Sanatoga and Ringing Hill fire companies were called Saturday at mid-morning to the scene of a motor vehicle accident on Kepler Road in Lower Pottsgrove.
A federally funded volunteer recruitment and retention campaign at Lower Pottsgrove's Ringing Hill Fire Company has grown its corps of volunteer firefighters and enhanced emergency responses, it says.
Sanatoga Fire Company volunteers will again sell flowers April 1-3 for its Easter fund-raiser at the firehouse, 2222 E. High St. Handmade candy eggs are unavailable this year, but should return in 2022.
Landscaping elements at the edge of a driveway on North Keim Street in Lower Pottsgrove doubled as a car stop in a single motor vehicle accident that occurred Thursday afternoon in Lower Pottsgrove.
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