One person still hospitalized after Friday’s Route 15 wreck
LEWISBURG – One person is still in the hospital, and traffic was gridlocked in part of The Valley, after a Route 15 crash near Lewisburg Friday morning. William Nibert of North Carolina is in fair condition at Geisinger Medical Center, according to a nursing supervisor.
Buffalo Valley Regional police tell us, Nibert was driving south, just south of Lewisburg, when he crossed the centerline in his tractor-trailer and hit two northbound vehicles. Nibert’s rig was empty, and the collision left side of the trailer torn off.
Police say the driver of a dump truck, Dawayne Betzer of Selinsgrove, and a car driver-Brandy Gessner of Mifflinburg, were taken to Evangelical Community Hospital. No treatment information is available on Betzer, Gessner was treated and released.
By blocking Route 15 traffic, hundreds of additional cars traveled through Northumberland—slowly—as there were mile long backups in the north and southbound lanes. At midday, the line to travel north into Northumberland began in Shamokin Dam, more than two miles away. Route 15 was reopened over the noon hour, according to PennDOT.