SUNBURY — The teen-aged occupants of a Chevrolet Cavalier involved in Thursday afternoon crash say the car hydroplaned moments before it clipped a minivan and then slammed into a pickup truck.
Five people — including four teenagers — remained hospitalized Friday.
Ian Scheller and Evan Witmer, are listed in critical condition today at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, while Jacob Witmer and Tonaya Murray are in fair condition. A fifth teen, Sarah Young, was treated and released, according to hospital records.
All teens are ages 15 and 16.
The Northumberland and Sunbury teens reportedly told their parents their car hydroplaned Thursday afternoon on Route 147 in Upper Augusta Township. Scheller, who was driving the teenagers’ vehicle, told his parents he overcompensated and hit the first vehicle, which spun around into the second. His parents said the other children gave the same report.
Many of the teenagers’ classmates were in to visit them at the hospital.
Scheller’s 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier sedan was traveling north on Route 147 when it weaved and struck two southbound vehicles, state police in Stonington said. It first hit a 2001 Chevrolet Venture van driven by Brian Dyer then a 2005 GMC Canyon truck, driven by Ellen E. Clement of Dalmatia.
Clement, 44, remains in critical condition while Judy Dyer, 42, was treated and released from Geisinger. Brian Dyer, 43, escaped serious injury. A 17-year-old boy in Dyer’s vehicle was also injured.
Cpl. Curtis Cooke, of the state police at Stonington, said the Cavalier hit the left rear of the Venture. The impact spun the Cavalier, which hit the Canyon pickup truck head-on.
The front of the Cavalier was crushed by the pickup truck. The crash threw the pickup truck into a ditch on the west side of the road.
The accident was the third serious accident involving a teen driver in the last two weeks. Wednesday, a Danville area teen was killed when he crashed his car in Columbia County. Bradley Ellis Utt, 18, a student at Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech School was killed when he crashed his car into a tree along a road near Buckhorn.
Two weeks ago, another Danville teen was seriously injured, and later died, after crashing a car filled with friends on Route 642 in Montour County.
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