SKIPPACK TOWNSHIP ACCIDENT

Flipped trailer carrying backhoe blocks Skippack Pike during Monday afternoon rush hour

The incident occurred around 3:45 p.m.

Managing Editor

Monday, November 4, 2024

The incident occurred around 3:45 p.m.

A trailer hauling a backhoe has flipped onto its side, blocking traffic from accessing Skippack Pike/Route 73 at Bridge Road/113 in Skippack Township Monday afternoon.

The incident occurred at the intersection around 3:45 p.m.

Large hauler trucks are on scene attempting to upright the trailer, per reports.

Traffic heading on Route 73 in the direction of SCI Phoenix are forced to turn at Bridge Road.

Harleysville Fire Co. is on scene, as well as Harleysville Fire Police and Skippack Fire Police.

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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.