Palmer Township, PA : Driver on Route 33 crashes into two emergency vehicles on Friday night, September 19, 2014

A Palmer Township assistant fire chief and a Pennsylvania State Police trooper received minor injuries Friday night after another driver caused a chain-reaction crash on Route 33, state police said. At about 10 p.m. emergency personnel were responding to a disabled vehicle and fluid spill in the right lane of Route 33 South at mile marker 8.7 in Palmer Township, state police at the Belfast barracks said. Trooper Steven Moyer was stopped in his cruiser with the emergency lights in the right lane and behind him was Assistant Fire Chief Michael Mancino in a township fire department Ford Expedition with its emergency lights on, police said. Joseph Shober, of Phillipsburg, was driving a Ford Explorer in the right lane when he failed to see the stopped vehicles and struck Mancino's SUV and pushed it into the back of Moyer's cruiser, police said. All involved were wearing seat belts; Mancino and Moyer, of Nazareth, received minor injuries and were checked by EMS but declined to be taken to a hospital, police said. Charges are pending against Shober, police said. Source : Palmer Township fire official, state police trooper injured in Route 33 chain-reaction crash