Lower Saucon Township, PA : Interstate 78 re-opens after car crushed in harrowing crash on Thursday, 27th September 2018

The tractor-trailer jackknifed in a downpour, spun across Interstate 78 in Lower Saucon Township, flipped over and landed on top of a car in what looked to be a certain catastrophe.

Astonishingly, the two occupants of the car — one of whom was trapped for three hours — survived the crash. The unidentified motorists were taken to St. Luke’s University Hospital in Fountain Hill, where police said they were admitted with “moderate” injuries.

Events unfolded shortly after 2 a.m. Friday in the middle of a storm that dumped more than an inch of rain across the region.

State police at Belfast said a westbound tractor-trailer jackknifed, spun through the median and entered the eastbound lane, hitting the trailer of another rig and flipping over onto the car in the eastbound left lane.

The second truck went off the road and its trailer went over the guard rail and down the embankment, police said. The trailer remained connected to the cab, which stopped it from going farther down the embankment.

When rescue workers arrived, the car sat crushed under a super-long freight trailer.

The accident happened near mile marker 68.5 and spread debris in both the westbound and eastbound lanes. All lanes reopened at 4:06 p.m.

The closure snarled traffic through most of the day. For 14 hours, Route 22 was the only available east-west highway through the Lehigh Valley.

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