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One injured in Tamaqua crash

One man was injured in a two car crash on Spruce Street in Tamaqua on Friday afternoon.

Police were dispatched to the area of the Rite Aid Store at 1:14 p.m. They found a red 2015 Dodge pickup, driven by Robert Oshman, 69, of 222 E. Broad St., Tamaqua, and a black 2000 Dodge pickup, driven by Barry Gerber Jr., of 322 Orwigsburg St., Tamaqua, on the north side of the store.Oshman said he was driving west on Spruce Street and made a left turn into a parking space on the north side of Rite Aid. His truck struck the driver's side fender and door of Gerber's pickup, which was eastbound.Gerber was transported to St. Luke's Miners Campus in Coaldale, complaining of neck pain.