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Turnpike crashes

State police at the Pocono barracks reported the following crashes that occurred on the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike:

• A 15-year-old girl from Philadelphia who was a passenger in a vehicle that crashed at 11:50 a.m. Feb. 7 at mile marker 84 in Penn Forest Township had suspected minor injuries.

Police said the crash occurred when Kristin Shelesky, 50, also of Philadelphia, was driving a 2024 Alfa Romeo GT Veloce northbound when it struck the concrete barrier and drove off the right shoulder of the road.

Police said the girl did not require an emergency medical services transport from the scene.

• Rose M. Stfleur, 50, of Freehold, New Jersey, was treated after a one-vehicle crash at 11:10 a.m. Feb. 7 at mile marker 88.4 in Penn Forest Township.

Police said she was transported by personnel from the Lehighton Ambulance Association to the St. Luke’s Hospital, Carbon Campus, Franklin Township.

They said Stfleur was driving a 2019 Lincoln northbound when she lost control of it after striking a piece of ice. The vehicle hit the concrete barrier on the left side of the road.

The Lincoln was towed from the scene.

• Herbert Stuardo Gonzalez-Santos, 45, and Brenda M. Hernandez, 46, both of Belleville, New Jersey, had possible injuries after a one-vehicle crash at noon Feb. 7 at mile marker 83.1 in Penn Forest Township.

Police said they were transported by personnel from the Lehighton Ambulance Association to the St. Luke’s Hospital, Carbon Campus, Franklin Township.

The crash occurred when Gonzales Santos was driving a 2020 Jeep Grand Cherokee, with Hernandez as a passenger.

Police said he was northbound when he lost control of the Jeep and it struck a snowbank on the right shoulder of the road.

The vehicle was towed from the scene.