Witnesses heard the crash, felt the fireball and watched as the driver of that truck bolted from the scene. Police call it a hitandrun leaving his injured passenger behind. Somebody was running down the opposite way. The car almost i was worried about getting him away. Reporter inside that police car, officer mark kimsey was trapped, the flames growing. I saw it was a cop careneand started sprinting. Reporter they rushed over and pulled the injured officer from the burning car. Chambers says he doesnt regret what he did. The door wouldnt open. The car caught fire and me and another guy ran we were already there. He said he couldnt feel his legs. So we said, were going to have to drag you through the window. And he was ready for it. Reporter police say the teen may have saved the officers life. He ran directly into the flames while cops are looking for that hitandrun driver last seen running the other way. A passenger inside that pickup truck was also injured, also taken here to the hos
Wind speeds at 9 miles per hou. Heres a closer look at radar that were seeing clouds move into the region. You should see sunshine at least to start off your morning. Our temperatures will range between 44 and 47 degrees. I am tracking the return of rain, right over the weekend, ill go over the details and the timing coming up in the first alert sevenday forecast, for now ill check with the first alert traffic reporter jillian mele. Good morning. A couple of accidents. One in new jersey, the turnpike southbound, exit 2, the right lane is blocked there. Taking this map out to montgomery county. Trap pe, an accident. Not causing any delays in the area. Drive time, 95 southbound from woodhaven to the vine. From the vine to the blue route, the blue route, to 76, 18minute trip. New from overnight, a construction worker is dead after being hit by a car. This happened around 11 00 on route 422 in North Coventry chester county. Police tell us the victim was the project superintendent. They say
Is cbs3 Eyewitness News. A wet corvette. And why this sports car ended up in the Delaware River is part of a twisted tale. Police say that it all began with a domestic dispute. Good evening, im chris may. Im jessica dean. This happened just before sunset near the tacony palmyra bridge. Eyewitness News Reporter diana rocco shows us what happened and why it could result in criminal charges. Reporter a 1990 red corvette is pulled from the Delaware River and loaded onto awaiting flatbed. Police say the latest casualty in a difficult divorce case. The corvette is registered to the wife. So, i guess he was angry with his wife and took her car, drove it to the Delaware River. Reporter police say a 50yearold husband dumped the car just below the tacony palmyra bridge monday and took off as witnesses watched the car submerge. The Police Marine unit and First Responders were called in after about 30 minutes divers found the car in 30 feet of water. There was no visibility whatsoever. The divers
Youre right matt were in for a nice a of the noon. Right now satellite shows low lying cloud cover across region. You can see that filling in over the last several hours. We expected that to burn off after sunrise. Then there will be lots of sunshine, maybe a few clouds streaking in later. We also have some fog, some of it dense with visibilities below a half mile from about Atlantic City up to surf city. This is actually migrating south along the coast and we have had some low visibilities reported farther south around wildwood as well so be careful of that over the next couple of hours. Temperatures not too bad. Up to 47 degrees in philadelphia. Obviously coat weather but with light winds and the fact that the temperatures are running better than yesterday, this isnt too bad of a morning and as we head outside to catch that school bus over the next couple of hours, again, coats but light winds. Mainly clear skies later on this morning, especially across areas away from the shore. And
Reporter 1990 red corvette is pulled from the Delaware River and loaded on to awaiting flatbed. Police say the latest casualty in a difficult divorce case. Corvette is registered to the wife. So i guess he was angry with his wife and took her car, drove it to the Delaware River. Police say a 50 year old husband angry with his estranged wife dumped the car just below the taconypalmyra bridge monday. And took off as witnesses watched the car submerge. The Police Marine unit and First Responders were called in. After about 30 minutes divers found the car in 30 feet of frigid water. There was no visibility whatsoever. The divers just had to go by feel. They found the vehicle. They went inside the vehicle which is extremely dangerous because you can get trapped with all the debris. They were able to feel that there was no one inside. Reporter police say the wife has a restraining order against her husband. Off camera she tells Eyewitness News hes been driving the corvette and threatened to