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Thursday, June 19, 2003 Page: 2A
DORRANCE TWP. – A car carrying five people – including two small children –
smashed twice into an 18-wheeler parked on the side of a rest stop entrance
ramp on Interstate 81 early Wednesday.
The identities of the people hurt are unknown, said state police at
Hazleton. Police said they might be from New York.
The five were in a 2003 Pontiac Bonneville that was headed north on I-81
just after 3:30 a.m. when the car traveled across the rest area entrance ramp
and hit the truck, was parked on the far right shoulder ramp.
Carlo Canfora of Caledonia, Wis., was sleeping Inside the truck. He was not
hurt.
The car bounced off the truck before hitting it a second time and coming to
rest in the middle of I-81 northbound. A toddler was thrown from the car and a
woman was thrown partially from the car. The driver and the front-seat
passenger were trapped. Rescuers worked an hour to free them.