MILFORD TOWNSHIP ACCIDENT

Northbound Northeast Extension backs up Tuesday night at Quakertown due to tractor trailer running off overpass

A tractor trailer ran off the southbound overpass of the Quakertown interchange.

  • Public Safety

Emergency personnel responded to a report in Milford Township Tuesday night of a vehicle accident with a rescue involving a Crete tractor trailer that ran off the southbound acceleration ramp overpass of the Quakertown interchange of the Northeast Extension and came to stop down an embankment.

According to Montgomery County emergency operations, the driver has safely exited the truck. The call came in at 6:48 p.m.

West End Fire Co. #2 of Quakertown, Milford Township Fire Co., Telford Fire Co., St. Lukes’s Emergency & Transport, and Vera Cruz Fire Dept. are on scene.

Traffic is backed up on northbound I-476 near Quakertown. One lane is closed at the Quakertown interchange.


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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.


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