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Crash in Amwell injures 1

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A man was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital Saturday after he was ejected from his pickup truck when it drove up an embankment and sideswiped a utility pole along Route 40 in Amwell Township.

The man, whose name was withheld, lost control of his truck about 4:20 p.m. while he was apparently driving too fast around a curve on Route 40 east near Hartley Hill Road, state police said.

Other motorists who stopped to assist the man went searching over an embankment after he told them two other people were in his truck at the time of the crash, witnesses said.

Police said there was no evidence found at the scene of other crash victims.

The driver was conscious before he was taken away in an ambulance, said Scott Reese, chief of the fire department in neighboring South Strabane Township.

About all anyone could learn from the victim after emergency workers arrived was his name and that there was no dog in an animal cage before it was thrown from the bed of the truck, Reese said.

The truck landed across Route 40 west, and the driver was discovered nearby on the road after apparently being thrown out of the driver’s side window.

Route 40 was closed in the area for about an hour.

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