Officials Release New Information On PA Turnpike Brick Throwing Incident
By Walt Hunter
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Pennsylvania State Police now say they believe there were three separate barrages of rocks and bricks, minutes apart, thrown onto the lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Bristol Township from the Bristol Oxford Valley Road overpass that shattered the windshields of three tractor trailers, sending one driver to the hospital for treatment of facial cuts.
Corporal David Webb tells CBS 3 he believes juveniles may be involved and he asks neighborhood parents to speak with their children, providing any information they might have to police."Sometimes they go uncaught," Corporal Webb said.
"If they do it again, and it happens at rush-hour, it's a terrible accident it could cause."
Fortunately, even with their windshields shattered and their rigs damaged, all three drivers were able to safely pull off the road.
"All I saw was hands and a bunch of rocks, and they just like threw them over," driver Torrance Bonner told CBS 3. "It was like it was raining rocks."
The injured truck driver, identified by police as Randall Blake, has now been released from the hospital.
"I just heard a big crash and there was glass all over me in my face and everything," driver John Wagner told CBS 3. "These kids don't realize it," he continued,"they could have killed somebody.
A spokesperson for Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler says his office is closely following the investigation and that the suspects, even if they are juveniles, will face serious charges when they are caught.
