By JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Four people, including three occupants of a horse-drawn buggy, were seriously injured in crashes Monday in East Lampeter Township and Martic Township.
Christ Beiler, 19, of Ivy Road, Paradise, was operating a buggy that collided with a Dodge Durango truck at 6:50 p.m. at Mount Sidney Road and Stumptown Road, East Lampeter police said,.
Beiler and two passengers, Mattie Beiler, 25, and Barbara Smucker, 23, both of Paradise, were thrown onto a lawn. Ambulances took all three to Lancaster General Hospital, where they were admitted in either critical or serious condition.
This morning, Smucker was still in critical condition. Christ Beiler was in serious condition and Mattie Beiler was in fair condition, an LGH spokesman said.
Robert Anderson, 41, of the 5400 block of Old Philadelphia Pike, Kinzers, who was driving the Durango, was not injured, police said.
Beiler was operating the open-top buggy south on Mount Sidney Road. He turned left at Stumptown Road and into the path of the northbound truck, police said.
The horse broke free from the buggy. It was found about three quarters of a mile from the crash scene.
Richard Drumm, 80, of Holtwood, was hurt in a one-vehicle crash at 2:45 p.m. Monday on Hilldale Road, near the village of Mount Nebo in Martic Township, Lancaster state police said.
Drumm was driving a 1992 Toyota pickup truck south on Hilldale Road. He lost control after traveling down a steep hill and around a sharp left curve, just south of Brady's Hill Road, Trooper Donna Harrison reported.
The truck traveled across a lawn, struck a utility pole, and then struck several shrubs and more trees over a distance of 190 feet, Harrison said.
Drumm was listed in critical condition this morning at Lancaster General.
In other accidents:
• Gladys Dulaney of Duncansville, Blair County, and two passengers in her vehicle were hurt in a Friday morning crash on westbound Route 30, near the New Holland Pike exit, Manheim Township police said.
A vehicle operated by Corinne Betancourt, of Lancaster, struck the back of Dulaney's vehicle at 8:58 a.m., Officer Sam Echternach reported.
Police cited Betancourt for failure to drive at a safe speed.
• Todd M Snavely, 43, of Mechanic Street, Reinholds, was taken to Reading Hospital following a 9:17 p.m. crash Friday in the 100 block of Swamp Church Road in West Cocalico Township.
Snavely's vehicle left the road and struck a culvert and a utility pole, East Cocalico Township police said.
• Joseph S. Tyl, 55, of Reading, was taken to Lancaster General after his 1996 Volkswagen struck a cement culvert and a utility pole at 12:25 a.m. Friday in the 800 block of Rothsville Road, Warwick Township police said.
Police are awaiting the result of blood-alcohol tests before determining charges.
• A vehicle driven by Matthew Miller, 32, of Hill Road, Denver, struck a utility pole in the first block of North Line Road in East Cocalico Township shortly before 11:30 p.m. Saturday, township police said.
Miller is being charged with fleeing-eluding police and multiple traffic violations, police said.
