PHOTOS: “We all said it would happen one day,” Renee McElheney said as she sat on the ground outside the Somerset Center Store in Orange County, unhurt after a tractor–trailer plowed into the front of the store where she worked Wednesday morning.
According to eyewitnesses working on the traffic circle project at the dangerous State Route 231 and State Route 20 intersection, a tractor–trailer heading southbound on Route 231 and a dump truck heading toward Orange collided in front of the store. The tractor–trailer plowed through the gas pumps in front of the community convenience store while the dump truck missed the store, striking a tree next to a nearby house.
No one seemed seriously injured at the scene, which was swarming with fire and rescue units, law enforcement officers and anxious onlookers.