LANSDALE BOROUGH ACCIDENT

Highland Avenue accident in Lansdale sends one driver to hospital with cardiac arrest Thursday

Volunteer Medical Service Corps of Lansdale performed CPR on the driver, who crahed a Mazda Protege shortly after 1 p.m.

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Volunteer Medical Service Corps of Lansdale performed CPR on the driver, who crahed a Mazda Protege shortly after 1 p.m.

Volunteer Medical Service Corps of Lansdale medics performed CPR on a driver of a Mazda Protégé who crashed into bushes and trees along the 700 block of Highland Avenue in Lansdale Thursday afternoon, resulting in the driver being taken to an area hospital, according to reports from the scene.

The accident occurred at 1:17 p.m. Highland Avenue was closed between Clear Spring and Crestview roads.

Fairmount Vol. Fire Co. and Lansdale Borough Police assisted at the scene.

There were no other occupants in the vehicle. The gender and age of the driver is unknown at this time.

The driver's condition is also unknown.

The scene was cleared by 1:40 p.m.

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Tony Di Domizio

Tony Di Domizio is the Managing Editor of NorthPennNow, PerkValleyNow, and CentralBucksNow, and a staff writer for WissNow. Email him at [email protected]. Tony graduated from Kutztown University, under the tutelage of Dr. Matthew Nesvisky and Dr. Heather Thomas, and went on to serve as a reporter and editor for various news organizations, including Lansdale Patch/AOL, The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa., and the weekly Chronicle news editions of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. A fourth-generation Lansdalian, he was born and raised in and around the Borough, including Little Italy, and attended North Penn High School, graduating in 1998. He once interviewed Jesse Spano in the back of a limousine outside North Penn High School.