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Motorist plunges down embankment, crawls out and is hit by rescue vehicle.

The driver of a car that plunged down a steep embankment off Route 33 north of Wind Gap on Thursday crawled out of the wreckage and scrambled back up to the highway, where minutes later he was struck and killed by a firetruck, police said.
State police have identified the pedestrian as 41-year-old Brian M. O’Neill of lower Bucks County.
O’Neill of Southampton had been driving a 2001 Honda Accord north on Route 33 when he crashed around 11:20 a.m. Thursday.
A wedding ring lay on the driver’s seat of his crumpled 2008 model car, and pictures of two young children were propped in the instrument cluster by the speedometer.
O’Neill refused offers of help from workers at a vineyard who saw his car bounce down the 25-foot-high hill.
They said he was driving north on Route 33 about 11 a.m. when his car sailed over a guardrail and crashed into the iron entrance gate and stone wall of Sorrenti Cherry Valley Vineyards.
After crawling back up the hill, O’Neill crossed the northbound lanes and the median to the southbound lanes and was walking north along the shoulder — facing oncoming traffic — when the truck hit him, according to state police at Swiftwater.
Southbound lanes were closed for hours while troopers took measurements to reconstruct the accident.
Vineyard owner Mary Sorrenti said she happened to look out the window of her office, caught a glimpse of the crash and called 911. “I saw the car airborne before it hit the gate,” she said.
A vineyard worker, Andrea Long, said she saw the man crawl out of his crumpled car and tried to help him. “He kept telling me to get away from him,” Long said.
Sorrenti said she saw the man “stagger a little bit.”
Instead of walking on Lower Cherry Valley Road, the road in front of the vineyard, he went up a “no outlet” road, heading for Route 33, they said.
“When he got to the top, I saw him look,” Long said. “He lunged out. He looked at incoming traffic and lunged out.”
Jim Mallon, Sorrenti’s brother, said a trooper who inspected the car saw the wedding ring. “It seems a leading clue from the way the cop said it,” Mallon said.
The firetruck, a new aerial ladder truck, was on its way to New Jersey to be added to the fleet of the Passaic Fire Department, said Deputy Fire Chief Paul Shefchik.
A vendor was driving it from a Pierce Manufacturing plant to Piscataway, N.J., where it was to have final work done before being delivered to the department, Shefchik said. No Passaic firefighters were involved in the transport, he said.
The ladder truck remained at the accident scene for hours during the investigation.