From staff reports
Clarion state police are continuing to release details about the pileup Thursday morning on the Emlenton Bridge on Interstate 80 that involved about a dozen vehicles.
Police said one of the crashes that resulted from the pileup occurred at about 6 a.m. Thursday.
Police said Gwendolyn Greenawalt, 22, of Knox, was traveling west on the bridge when her vehicle struck a vehicle driven by Dean Spence, 39, of Marienville, from behind. Spence had slowed his vehicle because of another crash that had occurred in the area of the bridge, police said.
None of the three drivers were injured, according to police.
A Clintonville volunteer firefighter – Justin Williams, 25, of Kennerdell – was injured about 90 minutes later when he was struck by a dump truck while setting up road flares along I-80 about two miles from the site of the first crashes, police said.
Williams had serious, but non-life threatening injuries and was transported to Saint Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown by Emlenton Area Ambulance Service, police said.
Both lanes of I-80 were closed for about five hours in the Emlenton area after Thursday’s crashes.
