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According to Lt. Mark Mayberry of the Northwest Regional Police, the accident occurred just east of Route 230 and Cloverleaf Road when one of the vehicles pulled into the path of another.
A female victim was trapped and had to be freed from the wreckage.
Five people were taken to hospitals, including one who was flown to Hershey Medical Center by the LifeLion helicopter.
Ambulances from Warwick, Northwest and Susquehanna Valley emergency services responded to the accident.
Mayberry said the accident was under investigation.
• In other police activities, Pennsylvania State Police on Thursday charged Richard Earl Beard, 46, of Atglen, with driving under the influence after a one-car accident in the Dutch Way supermarket parking lot at 365 State Highway 41 (Route 41) in Sadsbury Township.
• West Hempfield Township police responded to a fight in the 3600 block of Orkney Road where they said they found a 16-year-old male attempting to start a fight. The boy was cited for harassment.
Not long afterward, police were called to the 3300 block of Pin Oak Lane where they found the same youth and James Doersom, 38, of Lancaster, allegedly inciting a feud that had begun several days ago with some Pin Oak Lane residents.
The youth was charged with a second count of harassment, and Doersom will be charged with one count of harassment, police said.
• In Columbia, police served a bench warrant on James Paul Schmidt, 29, of Columbia.
Police were tipped that Schmidt was in a house in the 3700 block Horizon Drive, where they took him into custody.
Schmidt became violent and belligerent, police said, and continued to struggle, both at the police station, and while being taken by sheriff's deputies to Lancaster County Prison.
Police said Schmidt will be charged with disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.
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