Coroner looking to ban commercial truck traffic on Route 40 after most recent fatal crash that killed trucker, two others

A coroner in Pennsylvania is hoping to have commercial truck traffic banned from a highway involved in a series of fatal wrecks. 

The most recent crash on Route 40 in Pennsylvania claimed the lives of 66-year-old truck driver Delroy Henry, 31-year-old motorist Nikki Jo Rugg, and 34-year-old motorist Michael Brown on Monday, November 10th. 

According to WTAE 4, a tractor trailer left its lane and collided head on with a pickup truck, which then hit a van, resulting in the deaths. Five other people inside of the van were also transported to a hospital for treatment. Now, Coroner Bob Baker says he is hoping to get commercial truck traffic banned from the roadway to prevent future fatal wrecks on the two lane road. 

“Countless lives lost on this road due to the commercial tractor-trailers involved,” Baker said. “We had a mass fatality last year, within a year, four adults and an infant killed on this very same road. And now this call.”

“My first goal would be to talk to PennDOT to do a study, also talk to the state police, the Turnpike Commission, and local and state legislators to see what they can handle and do at Harrisburg, and then again to see who else can help this mission to get accomplished.”

Baker identified the victims on Wednesday, November 12th. No further information on the crash has been released.