Three Car Crash in Trappe; One Woman Injured

An elderly Trappe woman was treated for moderate injuries she suffered in a three-car collision in the borough around 8 a.m., Thursday, March 22, police said.

According to a report, Phoenixville resident Gerald DeGrazio, 42, was driving a Verizon utility truck west on Main Street at West Seventh Avenue, “facing a steady green traffic signal.”

Martha Douglas, 83, of Trappe was driving eastward in a 1998 Toyota Avalon sedan, and was also facing a green light, the report states. “For an unknown reason,” Douglas turned her car into the path of the truck, which then hit the Toyota’s passenger side, police said.

The sedan then spun clockwise and hit the left front end of a 2011 Ford truck F550, driven by Harold Bonenberger, 50, of Pottstown.

and fire police assisted at the scene. Douglas was transported to a local trauma center and will be cited for a turning moving violation, the police report states.

Neither of the other drivers suffered injuries, according to the report.
Superior Towing took the Toyota from the scene; the Verizon truck also had to be towed from the scene.