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Wednesday, April 12, 1995 Page: 2A
WYOMING — A head-on collision on Wyoming’s Eighth Street Bridge tied up
traffic for more than an hour and sent all four people involved in the crash
to area hospitals Tuesday evening, police said.
The crash happened at 6:47 p.m., as a 1982 Chevrolet Citation driven by
Bonnie Hopkins, 26, of Lathrop Street, Kingston, was traveling from Wyoming to
Jenkins Township in the wrong lane of traffic, police said.
Maria Mundenar, 18, of Lewis Street, Pittston Township, was traveling
toward Wyoming in a 1984 Ford pickup truck, police said. Mundenar stopped when
she saw the oncoming car in her lane. But the oncoming car proceeded in the
wrong lane of traffic and hit the truck, police said.
Both vehicles were extensively damaged, police said. Hopkins and her
passenger, Alan Hadvance, 25, of Church Street, Edwardsville, were both in
guarded condition at Community Medical Center’s trauma unit in Scranton late
Tuesday night.
Mundenar and her passenger, William J. Mundenar, 67, of Landon Street,
Pittston, were both treated at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital and released.
Wyoming Police Chief John Gilligan said he is investigating whether alcohol
was a factor in the crash.
Gilligan said the investigation by he and patrolman Kevin Kistler is
continuing. Wyoming police were assisted on the scene by numerous other
police, fire and ambulance personnel.
TIMES LEADER/LEWIS GEYER
Police said a vehicle traveling in the wrong lane crashed into a truck
Tuesday evening on the Eighth Street Bridge in Wyoming.