LEWISTOWN, PA : Cars crash at hot spot on Tuesday, March 21st 2017

The Electric Avenue and Mill Road interchange was slow going Tuesday afternoon following a two-vehicle crash.

The crash occurred shortly before 2:30 p.m. at the interchange in Derry Township, when a Ford Escape driven by Bethany Goshorn, of Mifflintown, was trying to turn left onto Electric Avenue from Mill Road.

Mifflin County Regional Police Chief Scott Mauery said Goshorn did not see a silver sedan driven by Ron Evilhock, of Lewistown, who was coming off of U.S. 322 onto Electric Avenue.

Mauery said Goshorn pulled out in front of Evilhock causing him to hit her on the drivers side of her car.

“She said she looked but with the way the sun was, it was hard to see the silver car,” Mauery said. “I do believe the environmental factors were a cause of this crash.”

Neither driver was injured as a result of the accident, but Goshorn’s dog, who was also in the Ford Escape, ran off after the crash.

Mauery said this is the third crash to occur on Electric Avenue in the past week.

“Something needs to be done here,” he said.

The interchange is currently the focus of a SEDA-Council of Governments and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation study to see how an improvement could be made to make

the interchange safer.

The grant, which was a joint application between Mifflin County and Derry Township, was awarded in March in the amount of $78,000.

During a December meeting of the Mifflin County Planning Commission meeting, Bill Gomes, director of planning and development, said the interchange creates an obstacle for motorists traveling Electric Avenue, drivers exiting off the ramp form U.S. 322 and those coming from Mill Road.

Typically the busiest hours for the interchange are when students are arriving to and from Mifflin County High School and Mifflin County Junior High, and then again when Geisinger-Lewistown Hospital employees are switching shifts.

Gomes said 3 p.m. is generally when traffic is at its highest.

Mauery said anything to make that

interchange better will help.

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Cars crash at hot spot