Video captures wrong-way driver before fatal crash on Pa. Turnpike

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A 50-year-old Bucks County man was killed by a wrong-way driver on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Pennsylvania State Police were dispatched to the I-476 northbound, near mile marker 67 in Washington Township, around 9 a.m. on Sunday after a report of a crash involving a group of motorcycles.
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we are learning more about a devastating
wrongway crash in Bucks County a
50-year-old motorcyclist was killed and
another injured on the Northeast
Extension yesterday morning dramatic
video captured by another driver shows
the moments right before the crash
action news reporter Katie catro live
for us now from Bethlehem with the
latest on the updates on the ongoing
investigation
Katie now shie there are no charges at
this time as the investigation continues
into the fatal crash that left one
person
dead okay guess I'm doing this today
this is
happening what are you doing what are
you doing viewer video shared with
action news shows a driver going the
wrong way on the Northeast Extension the
person who took the video tells action
news they are too shaken up to go on
camera after learning the woman driving
this car is accused of killing a man she
blew by me it's not like she was doing
30 she was doing 70 80 90 miles an hour
Pennsylvania State Police Troop T Pocono
station is investigating the crash that
happened yesterday just after 9:00 a.m.
troopers were dispatched to I 476
northbound mile marker 67 in Washington
Township Lehigh County Police say a
24-year-old woman was behind the wheel
of a 2019 Honda HRV police say the woman
from Perth Amboy New Jersey was driving
southbound in the Northbound Lanes
that's where She's accused of striking
two motorcycles out of a group of six
that were driving together a 50-year-old
man from Bristol Bucks County riding a
2016 Harley-Davidson motorcycle died at
the scene a 24-year-old man also from
Bristol was injured and treated at the
scene and then taken to a local hospital
the Lehigh County coroner's office has
identified the man who died as John
Joseph Sweeney the driver of the Honda
has minor injuries I was infuriated
she's potentially putting lives at
risk now police are not releasing the
name of the driver at this time if you
have any information give State Police a
call reporting live in Bethlehem Katie
catro Channel 6 Action News sh all right
Katie thanks
