State Police Fail to Find Crash Site for 3 Days

Despite three 911 calls last February reporting that a car had crashed on a turnpike, Pennsylvania State Police didn’t find the vehicle for three days. The driver, Sam Turoni, 74, was dead when emergency units eventually arrived, but it’s not known exactly when he died. The Scranton Times newspaper obtained logging tapes of the three 911 calls from the Lackawanna County comm center, but state police officials have so far declined to provide any further details on the calls, their response or the delay in finding Turoni. The callers all gave accurate locations, although they were slightly imprecise, and the vehicle was 40 yards off the road into woods. County officials stressed that their dispatchers simply took the 911 calls and relayed information to the turnpike comm center, and that state police troopers investigated and cancelled responding fire units. The last caller was a deer hunter who happened upon the car and found Turoni on the ground near the car. Read more and listen to the 911 calls here.