Three Injured in DeKalb Pike Accident in Whitpain

An elderly couple from Norristown and a man from Quakertown were injured in a two-vehicle accident on DeKalb Pike at Jolly Road in Whitpain Township on Aug. 2, police said.

At 4:36 p.m., Whitpain Township Police officers responded to the accident, and found a 2009 Hyundai on the edge of its driver's side roof in a ditch along the east side of DeKalb Pike, police said.

Its occupants, Sonata Ann Wooten, 73, and passenger Carlton Wooten, 84, of the 100 block of Mill Road, Norristown, were extricated from the car by crews at Centre Square Fire Co., police said. The Wootens were taken via ambulance to Paoli Hospital, police said.

A third man—Brian Heron, 51, of Quakertown—was flown by PennStar to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for treatment of injuries, police said.

Sonata Wooten told police that she was driving the Hyundai, when traffic stopped suddenly, and she could not stop in time, police said.

Wooten swerved to miss a 2002 F250, driven by Heron, police said, which was stopped ahead of her in traffic.

DeKalb Pike was closed for an hour, police said.