Three people were injured, including one teenager, when a driver lost control and struck a utility pole as a fast-moving snow squall dropped a quick coating of snow across Philadelphia Thursday morning. <\/p>\n
The crash happened just after 6:15 a.m. at the intersection of G Street and East Wyoming Avenue in the city’s Juniata Park neighborhood, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police said a 21-year-old man driving a red Honda Civic was traveling on G Street and lost control of the car due to the snow and ice on the road and struck a utility pole.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old man\u00a0and a woman in her 20s in the passenger seat were both critically injured, police said. A 17-year-old boy in the backseat of the Honda Civic was placed in stable condition at the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n
“Every stride, I was just slipping”\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
Alex Cook was forced to clean off his car, and he says the street and sidewalks near his home in Fairmount were a sheet of ice.<\/p>\n
“I was riding my skateboard down 18th here and every stride I was just slipping off the side,” he said.<\/p>\n
Cook also planned on heading to his mom’s house to celebrate New Year’s Day, but he waited a few hours, hoping the sun would melt some of the ice near 18th and Green streets.<\/p>\n
“I just knew it wasn’t worth it, I don’t want to slide and get into an accident right after New Year’s Eve,” Cook said.<\/p>\n
“It was icy, if you came to a stop sign and if there was a car in front of you, you were afraid you were going to rear end it, so I was taking it really slow,” Chris Roller said.<\/p>\n
The city says crews with the Streets Department were out treating the roads, but with the cold weather not much melted.<\/p>\n
The squall covered cars and created a dicey commute for some drivers who ventured out early.<\/p>\n
Chopper 3 was over a snow covered and slick Lincoln Drive, and CBS News Philadelphia also found slippery spots at 40th Street and Lancaster Avenue in West Philly.<\/p>\n
“Well, the main roads are fine, it’s just the back roads are a little icy still where the suns not hitting because when the sun hits it it’s melting it, but where it’s still shady it’s a bit icy,” said Mike Boyko, who lives in Ridley Park.<\/p>\n
“The streets were fine, a little bit of snow, but not too slippery, traffic wasn’t bad so it’s ok wasn’t bad at all,” Richard Cho said.<\/p>\n
PennDOT said crews were also out salting the roads through Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
If you’re headed out, just be careful and be aware you could hit some patches of black ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people were injured, including one teenager, when a driver lost control and struck a utility pole as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1540,69,71,70,34911],"class_list":{"0":"post-75851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-car-crash","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news","12":"tag-snow-squall"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}