Video Shows Wrong-Way Driver Minutes Before Fatal PA Turnpike Crash

BUCKS COUNTY, PA —A video has captured the driver who was going the wrong way minutes before she struck and killed a Bucks County motorcyclist on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Sunday afternoon.

Action News 6 has obtained the video shared by a viewer showing the driver going in the wrong direction. Watch the video here.

The viewer told Action News that the driver "blew by me. It's not like she was doing 30. She was doing 70, 80, 90 miles an hour. I was doing 65."

Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio announced that the motorcyclist who was struck and killed by the unnamed driver was John Joseph Sweeney, 50, of Bristol.

Pennsylvania State Police Troop T Pocono Station is investigating the fatal crash that occurred at 9:09 a.m. on Sunday at Mile Marker 67 in Washington Township, Lehigh County.

Sweeney was among a group of five other riders when he was struck by a wrong-way driver, a 24-year-old Perth Amboy, N.J., woman, State Police said.

State Police said the woman, who was driving a 2019 Honda HRV, was heading southbound in the turnpike's northbound lanes and struck two motorcycles from a group of six that were driving together.

No charges have been filed so far in the crash, State Police said.

State Police said Sweeney, who was driving a 2016 Harley Davidson motorcycle, was pronounced dead at the scene.

A 24-year-old Bristol man also suffered injuries and was treated at the scene by Northern Valley Emergency Medical Services and transported to Lehigh Valley Hospital Cedar Crest for treatment, state police said.