Pittston, Whitefield Men Survive Deadly Crash

PITTSTON — Peter Poland will never forget two things: Looking up to see the headlights of a van bearing down on him just 3 feet away and moments later rushing up the side of a New Jersey interstate to hug his best friend, Troy Chase. Both were in tears after they discovered the other was still alive. Between those moments, Poland said, the van struck him and knocked him over a guardrail, plowed through Chase’s cattle trailer in an explosion of metal, ran into a bull calf they had picked up that morning and into a New Jersey man walking up the road who had struck their parked trailer with his car earlier.