Rush Hour

A fatal accident in Moorestown is causing heavy delays on Route 38 at rush hour, near the stretch of highway where the female driver died around 1:30 p.m., police said. In the single-vehicle accident, a woman driving alone and heading eastbound on Route 38 between Fellowship Road and Moorestown-Mount Laurel Road veered off the road and struck a pole and several signs before striking a second pole and coming to a stop. When Moorestown police arrived minutes later, Lt. Lee Lieber said, the driver was dead at the scene.

Blame it on the rain - from Aug. 14. A previously rained-out Phillies game rescheduled for 1:05 p.m. today at Citizens Bank Park could cause traffic havoc during the evening rush hour because it could coincide with - you guessed it - more rain. Phillies fans should be leaving the park some time after 4 p.m. The release of about 43,000 fans into the traffic stream is normally enough to impact the commute along I-95, the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76) and the Walt Whitman and Ben Franklin bridges.

A newborn, clearly in a hurry during rush hour, was delivered this morning morning in a car on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. According to state police at the King of Prussia Barracks, the unidentified parents were on their way to the hospital. They pulled over and called for assistance around 7:24 a.m., police said. The full-term baby boy was delivered inside the blue Toyota Prius which stopped at milemarker 336.7 on the westbound lanes in Whitemarsh Township. The mother and infant were transported by Ambler EMS to Albert Einstein Medical Center, police said.

A Deptford woman was trapped for 40 minutes last night after her car struck a tractor-trailer on Route 47 during rush hour in Deptford. Marilyn Paullin, 58, was in critical but stable condition at Cooper Hospital-University Medical Center last night. Traffic had to be detoured off Route 47 for about an hour.

A truck carrying mail this morning lost its load on Route 611 in Warrington, Bucks County. The accident at Rout 611 and Bristol Road occurred shortly after 7 a.m. and during the start of rush hour, hampering local traffic. Only one lane was getting by as crews at the scene worked to remove the truck and gather the mail. Hundreds of pieces of the multi-colored envelopes and other mail scattered across several lanes.

A crash involving a car and tractor-trailer at the intersection of North Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue halted traffic in the area for about two hours during this morning's rush hour. Police detoured vehicles around the intersection during the cleanup. No injuries were reported in the 7:30 a.m. crash, but gasoline spilled from the tractor's damaged fuel tank. Police reported the accident had been cleared after 9:30 a.m.

Supervisors probably will give Lockheed Martin the green light for its proposed development along Route 332 on one condition: It agrees on a traffic-impact fee with the township. The township Planning Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to recommend approval for both Lockheed Martin and Holy Family College to build on 52 acres on the bypass near Interstate 95. The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to hear the proposals at its Wednesday meeting. "Really, the only remaining issue here is this discrepancy in the traffic-impact fee," said Supervisor Steve Sanderlin.

Traffic on the Schuylkill Expressway was heavier yesterday because about 10 percent of the motorists who had abandoned the roadway Wednesday, the first day of roadway construction, ventured back to the highway. But the additional drivers did not add substantially to delays on the expressway, and officials from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said they continued to be pleased with, although wary of, developing traffic patterns. "We can't give a trend yet, because the traffic is still shifting," said PennDOT spokewoman Lois Morasco.

A car crashed through a handrail and down steps leading to the entrance of The Gallery at Market East during rush hour this morning in Center City. The crash occurred at 9th and Market Streets shortly after 7 a.m. It involved a red, Oldsmobile Achieva and a gray Dodge Caravan minivan. No one appeared to be seriously injured. But the scene drew astonished commuters as the Achieva perched half-way down the concrete steps between Kmart and the mall's entrance. The identities of the drivers were not immediately available, but both vehicles had Pennsylvania license plates.

Officials closed the southbound lanes of I-95 in Bensalem for more than 3 1/2-hours today so crews could remove a tractor-trailer that overturned in the predawn hours. They also had to patch damage where the rig gouged out a section of the roadway. No serious injuries were reported in the crash around 5 a.m. near Route 413. Officials said the tractor-trailer carrying watermelons was northbound on I-95 when it went out of control, crossed the grassy median and flip on its side in the lane closest to the median.

In this updated bacon-dressed spinach salad, the bacon is replaced with a leaner, lighter, sweeter cured-pork product: prosciutto from Parma. The dressing can be made a day ahead. Bring it to room temperature before using, mixing in a tablespoon of oil or water to loosen it up if necessary. Spinach and Prosciutto Salad With Apple-Onion Vinaigrette Makes 4 servings 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 small onion, finely diced (3/4 cup) 1 large tart apple, such as Granny Smith, peeled, cored, cut in 1/4-inch dice 1 tablespoon maple syrup, or more to taste Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar About 10 ounces fresh baby spinach 6 thin slices Prosciutto di Parma (about 3 ounces)

ON SUNDAY, May 5, Casey Cattie, 18, an aspiring country singer with a big-league voice, left her Chadds Ford, Delaware County, home in plenty of time to make her pregame sound check at Citizens Bank Park so she could sing "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch. Packed into her car with her mom, dad, kid brother and boyfriend, the Unionville High senior became nervous when Route 322 merged into a bumper-to-bumper crawl on I-95 North. Six hours earlier, a tractor-trailer had crashed and burned on the interstate in South Philly, littering the highway with pineapples, melons and bananas.