Milford car wreck across median hospitalizes six

A 16-year-old driver was cited after a serious crash Sunday evening injured several people, according to state police. 

The teenager was driving a 2001 Volkswagon Beetle on New Wharf Road in Milford around 5:30 p.m. and tried to turn right onto northbound Bay Road, police said. She crossed over both northbound lanes into the path of a 72-year-old woman driving a Honda Pilot in the left lane, police said. 

The vehicles collided and the SUV was sent across the grass median of Bay Road into the southbound lanes where it struck the side of a 2016 Volvo tractor-trailer operated by a 62-year-old man from Seaford, police said. The collision caused the trailer's rear axle to become dislodged, but the truck kept going, dragging it. 

The 16-year-old driver and her passenger were transported to the Bayhealth Milford Memorial Hospital with minor injuries. The driver was cited for failure to remain stopped and failure to have insurance identification in her possession.

The 72-year-old woman was transported by a state police helicopter to Christiana Hospital with serious injuries. One juvenile passenger in the vehicle with serious injuries was flown to Nemours/A.I. DuPont Hospital. Two other passengers were taken by ambulance to Bayhealth Milford Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The truck driver wasn't hurt.

The roadway in the area of the crash was closed for about five hours.

ON THE ROAD

Pennsylvania man dies in flaming single-car wreck on US 202

1 dead, 4 injured in Millsboro crash: police

Contact Adam Duvernay at (302) 319-1855 or aduvernay@delawareonline.com.