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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:

• Donna M. Lobatto, 58, of Jim Thorpe, was uninjured in a one-vehicle crash at 7:25 a.m. March 12 at mile marker 57.4 in South Whitehall Township.

Police said she was driving a 2019 Honda Passport and was exiting the turnpike at the Lehigh Valley Interchange when the passenger side of the vehicle struck a rounded barrier on the right side of the road.

Police said the vehicle had damage to its passenger-side front tire and tie rod and was towed from the scene.

• No one was injured in a two-vehicle crash at 12:20 p.m. March 11 at mile marker 77 in Franklin Township in a work zone.

Police said Martin E. Kurtz, 64, of Weatherly, was driving a 2015 Chevrolet Silverado and was parked along the west berm of the road, using an electric sign board attached to a utility trailer he was pulling, when it was sideswiped by a flatbed vehicle that continued south.

Police said the signboard was damaged by the impact.