Crime & Safety

PA State Police Cite Truck Driver in I-79 Rush Hour Accident

The jack-knifed tractor-trailer created miles-long backups for commuters Tuesday morning.

Pennsylvania State police cited the driver of a tractor-trailer involved in an accident Tuesday morning on Interstate 79 in Marshall Township.

The accident occurred just before 6 a.m. in southbound lanes, just a few hundred feet south of Wexford Run Road.

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The morning rush hour was reduced to a crawl as traffic backed up beyond the I-79/PA Turnpike interchange.

According to the police report, truck driver Tomasz Grodzki, 38 of Stroudsburg, was following too closely to the vehicle in front of him.

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When the driver of the vehicle in front of the truck hit the brakes, Grodzki lost control of his rig, swerving first to the right, and then to the left across all three lanes of traffic before coming to rest in the left berm of the road. 

No one was hurt, and no other vehicles were involved.

The driver was charged with following too closely to the vehicle in front of him.

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