Dump Truck

A Willingboro officer is examined after his police car and a dump truck collided at Tiffany Lane and Twin Hill Drive. According to police, the truck, driven by John P. McGarrigle Jr., 30, of Willingboro, hit a parked car on Tiffany Lane yesterday afternoon and continued to Twin Hill Drive. There it collided head-on with a car driven by Patrolman Ed Walker. Walker was treated at Virtua-Memorial Hospital Burlington County for minor bumps and bruises. McGarrigle refused treatment. An investigation was continuing.

Authorities identified a truck driver who was critically injured Monday morning when his trailer flipped over on I-295 in Cherry Hill as 42-year-old Dwain Gable of Lehighton, Pa. Firefighters had to extricate Gable from the cab of the northbound tractor-trailer dump truck, which toppled into the southbound lanes around 9:30 as snow fell, New Jersey state police said. Gable was taken to Cooper University Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition. State Police Sgt. Adam Grossman said the rig was near the exit for Route 70 when it fell over.

A Philadelphia police officer and five city Streets Department workers were injured about 8:30 a.m. yesterday when a police vehicle and a city dump truck collided at State Road and Ashburner Street, police said. Police Officer Edward Schoeniger, 29, suffered cuts on his face and hands, a hospital spokeswoman said. He was listed in guarded condition last night at Frankford Hospital's Torresdale Campus. The five Streets Department employees were treated for injuries at area hospitals and released by late afternoon.

A 23-year-old courier was killed in Center City yesterday after falling from his bicycle and tumbling under the rear wheels of a dump truck, police said. David A. Ditzen of West Philadelphia was traveling south on Eighth Street near Chestnut at 12:40 p.m. when the accident occurred, police said. Ditzen, who worked for Diamond Courier Service Inc., was on his way to make a delivery, traveling on the west side of Eighth Street between the dump truck and parked cars, when he lost control of his bicycle, according to Lt. John Rohrbach of the Police Department's Accident Investigation Division.

A 23-year-old woman was killed on Interstate 95 yesterday morning when the car in which she was riding hit a dump truck, crossed the median strip and smashed into an oncoming tractor-trailer. The accident - which occurred shortly before 9:30 a.m. between the Woodhaven Road and Academy Road exits - closed the southbound lanes for 90 minutes and tied up traffic for more than two hours. Police identified the dead woman as Kathleen Fabio, of Richmond Street in Philadelphia. She was pronounced dead at the scene by fire-rescue workers.

The families of two car-accident victims allege in a suit filed yesterday in Gloucester County Superior Court that the two drivers involved were negligent and that a convenience store also was responsible because high shrubbery made it difficult to see traffic. Three people died Nov. 30 when a car driven by Margaret J. Trancucci of Staten Island, N.Y., went through an intersection in Washington Township after a stop sign apparently had been stolen, police said. A dump truck hit the car as it attempted to turn onto Pitman-Downer Road from Mariner Drive, killing Trancucci, 72; her daughter, Barbara Civalier, 28, of Deptford, and Trancucci's sister, Genevieve Dianora, 68, also of Deptford.

Route I-76 reopened to traffic at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, almost five hours after a crash involving a tractor-trailer, a dump truck, and a passenger car closed the eastbound lanes just east of the Conshohocken curve. The accident caused about 300 gallons of diesel fuel to spill onto the Schuylkill Expressway and left the dump truck on its side. At 4 p.m., State Police Trooper Danea Durham said crews were working to remove a load of crushed stone that had spilled from the dump truck.

The second of two 11-year-old triplets who survived a Burlington County school bus crash last month that killed their sister has left Cooper University Hospital in Camden, a spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday. Sophie Tezsla was moved Tuesday to a rehabilitation facility, according to the spokeswoman. Natalie Tezsla was released from Cooper on Feb. 22, nearly a week after Isabelle Tezsla was killed when a dump truck struck their bus in Chesterfield Township, forcing it into a traffic pole.

The school bus driver in the crash that killed one of three triplets last month and seriously injured her two sisters has been issued a traffic citation for his role in the crash. Police issued bus driver John Tieman, 66, of Beverly, a summons Monday for failing to stop or yield in the Feb. 16 crash that killed sixth-grader Isabelle Tezsla, 11, injured her sisters Sophie and Natalie, and hurt a third student, Jonathan Zdybel, also 11. Burlington County investigators said a dump truck hit the school bus at the intersection of Route 528 and Old York Road in Chesterfield Township.