The Bucks County coroner's office identified the man who drowned to death in Neshaminy Creek on Thursday. Michael Allan Fisher, 56, submerged in the creek after crashing his jeep into multiple cars, a house and then driving into the water.
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After 1 a.m. Saturday, the rig slammed through a guard rail and over a concrete barrier, falling 40 feet from a bridge to the ground below. (Shutterstock)
BENSALEM, PA The driver of a tractor-trailer was killed early Saturday morning when his truck swerved off of a bridge on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Bucks County and fell about 40 feet, authorities say.
Pennsylvania State Patrol troopers say Charles Edward Hopper, Jr., 49, of Girard, Ohio, was driving east on the turnpike at 1:26 a.m. Saturday as he approached the I-276 overpass at Newportville Road.
Troopers say Hopper s rig drifted to the right and slammed into the guard rail just before the bridge. It tore up about 200 feet of guard rail and slammed into a concrete barrier at the bridge, then went over the barrier, plummeting about 40 feet to the ground below. It landed on its left side in a wooded area near a creek.
Ohio Trucker Killed In Sunday Morning Crash
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Charles Edward Hopper Jr., 49, of Girard, Ohio, a town about 10 miles from the Pennsylvania border, was killed after his 2015 yellow Frightliner truck with a combination of two semi-trailers went off the overpass. The cab and one of the two trailers fell about 40 feet onto the ground along Newportville Road near the bank of the Neshaminy Creek in Bristol Township around 1:26 a.m., state police said.
Troopers said the truck failed to stay in its lane and drifted into the guide rail leading up to the overpass before the crash. The truck drove against the barrier and an abutment, damaging the bridge. The truck ended up going over the concrete barrier before falling off the overpass. The one semi-trailer went off the overpass with the cab and one stayed on the overpass.
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