Honorable Annette M. Sandberg
Administrator
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
400 Seventh Street, S.W.
Suite 8202
Washington, D.C. 20590
About 3:36 p.m., eastern daylight time, on April 11, 2003, in the Borough of Glen Rock,
Pennsylvania, a 1995 Ford dump truck owned and operated by Blossom Valley Farms, Inc., was
traveling southbound on Church Street, a two-lane, two-way residential street with a steep
downgrade, when the driver found that he was unable to stop the truck. The truck struck four
passenger cars, which were stopped at the intersection of Church and Main Streets, and pushed
them into the intersection. One of the vehicles struck three pedestrians (a 9-year-old boy, a 7-
year-old boy, and a 7-year-old girl), who were on the sidewalk on the west side of Church Street.
The truck continued across the intersection, through a gas station parking lot, and over a set of
railroad tracks before coming to rest about 300 feet south of the intersection. As a result of the
collision, the driver and an 11-year-old occupant of one of the passenger cars received fatal
injuries, and the three pedestrians who were struck received minor-to-serious injuries. The six
remaining passenger car occupants and the truck driver were not injured. 1
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