Two crashes in Bensalem tie up local roads



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Alex Lloyd Gross Photo Delaware Valley News.com The crash on Galloway Rd gets cleared.

By Alex Lloyd Gross

Two one vehicle accidents withing hours of each other caused local roads in Bensalem Bucks County to become traffic nightmares for local drivers, yesterday, May 1, 2016.  The first crash was on Galloway Road, near Bristol Road. one vehicle went off the road and struck a pole . The driver was ejected from that vehicle. His injuries are said to be serious.  That crash resulted in a portion of Galloway Road being closed for about one hour. There were no passengers in that vehicle.

The second crash occurred on Bristol Pike . A driver slammed into a pole,  hit a fence and wound up in a front yard.  The driver sustained injuries that was not life threatening. There were no passengers in the car.  Police said that  both accidents are under investigation and  a cause for why the vehicles left the road was not  known. Bristol Pike was closed for a little over one hour while the vehicle was removed and wreckage cleared away.