Truck accident kills mother and daughter, injures six

GLEN ROCK, Pa.-- A dump truck that lost control while driving down a steep hill slammed into parents and children at a school bus stop, killing a woman and her daughter and seriously injuring two other children.

Authorities were still investigating Friday afternoon's multiple-vehicle crash, but police chief Jim Childs said it appeared the truck was too heavy to have been legally traveling on the hill in Glen Rock, about 90 miles west of Philadelphia.

The Blossom Valley Farms truck was carrying a load of dirt when the driver said he lost his brakes.

The truck ran over a 9-year-old boy on the road and slammed into a car stopped at a stop sign, pushing the car into the intersection and leading to collisions involving three other cars, police said.

Michelle Moser, 33, and her 11-year-old daughter, Amber McAdle, whom she had just picked up at the bus stop, died at the scene.

Six people were injured, including the 9-year-old, who was reported in critical condition Saturday at Hershey Medical Center, and a 7-year-old girl in intensive care at the same hospital.

A woman was admitted to a York hospital for injuries that were not life-threatening. The others were treated and released, including the truck driver, Jaysen Nathaniel Newton, 21.

Mark Faulkner, 39, said he heard the crash and came out of his building to see if the truck driver was all right.

"He said, 'I'm sorry, it's not my fault .... my brakes gave out,"' Faulkner said.