Driver injured in icy crash

A driver was injured after losing control of a pickup truck and striking a building early Friday morning.

According to a post on the Friendship Fire Company No. 1 Facebook page, the accident occurred about 2:32 a.m. at 8320 Woodbury Pike, Roaring Spring.

State police at Hollidaysburg said Brandon E. Mowery, 34, of Claysburg was operating a 2004 Dodge Dakota when he traveled over a bridge and lost control of the pickup truck due to icy road conditions. The truck struck the commercial building, Cove Business Systems, causing significant damage to the exterior of the structure, state police said.

Firefighters set up light towers and controlled a fuel leak as a result of the impact. The impact into the structure was so severe it buckled a door and broke a window that was about 25 feet down the wall away from the site of the crash, according to the fire company post.

Mowery was transported to Conemaugh Nason Medical center for treatment of injuries.

QUAKERTOWN

Three killed in Christmas Day fire

A man and two children were found dead after an early-morning fire in an eastern Pennsylvania home on Christmas Day that may have been sparked by Christmas tree lights, authorities said.

Quakertown police said fire units were called to Essex Court shortly before 1:30 a.m. Saturday and found half of a twin home ablaze. The Bucks County coroner said Eric King, 41, and the two children, whose identities hadn’t been confirmed, were found deceased.

Another adult and a child who were able to get out were treated at a hospital and later released.

“Right now, it’s our understanding that we’re looking at the Christmas tree that may have ignited as a result of Christmas lights on that Christmas tree,” Scott McElree, Quakertown’s chief of police, told KYW-TV.

Mirror staff, wire reports