THE LEHIGH VALLEY AREA OF PENNSYLVANIA is suffering from a plethora of flying ice chunks from tractor-trailer trucks. One of them struck a Hanover Township ambulance yesterday and caused significant damage to it.
The Morning Call reports:
Two ambulance crew members were hurt when a large chunk of ice flew off a passing truck, crashed through their windshield and hurtled to the back of their ambulance Wednesday in East Allen Township.
Because the Hanover Township, Northampton County ambulance crew was not seriously injured, state police said they could not cite the truck driver for failing to clear his vehicle. A 2006 law states a driver can be charged and fined as much as $1,000 if falling ice causes serious injury or death.
”Really, what’s it going to take until they change that law?” asked township Fire Chief Scott Milham. ”They are very lucky they weren’t killed, because that ice really did some damage to the ambulance.”
The ice chunk, which police estimated was 3 feet by 2 feet, hit the ambulance with such force it crushed the windshield and a camera mounted to the front dash and sprayed ice pieces and shards of glass throughout the vehicle, Milham said.
The article goes on to explain why the law is written that way HERE.
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