PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A pair of multi-vehicle crashes shut down a portion of PA Rte. 309 in Fort Washington for a few hours Thursday morning.
Route 309 CLOSED BOTH WAYS at Suqueshanna Rd for multi-vehicle accidents due to ice pic.twitter.com/cxt4Ockb3O
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February 28, 2019 The first crash happend just before 5 a.m. on northbound 309 when a single car spun out on ice near Susquehanna Road. About 10 minutes later, it had turned into a seven-car pile up with one car overturned.
Then a little after 5:30 a.m., a single car spun out in the southbound lanes of 309. It, too, quickly turned into a multi-vehicle pile up. Both the northbound and southbound lanes were then closed to all traffic between Susquehanna and Norristown Roads for about three hours as emergency response crews cleaned up the mess.
As the clean up and investigation were going on, a third crash was reported on Northbound 309 just north of the earlier multi-vehicle accident. That accident was not as serious as the earlier crashes.
