CHESTNUTHILL TOWNSHIP --An investigation is underway after a woman was killed in a crash in Monroe County.
State police say Jeanette Ferrara of Effort was killed when her car crossed into the other lane and crashed into a garbage truck on Route 209 near Brodheadsville around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Workers nearby heard and felt it all happening.
"I heard this very loud crash like something hit the road really hard. It sounded like a semi or something just fell and just hit the ground and the whole trailer shook," Pamela Hetzler recalled.
A second crash involving three other vehicles followed in the same area. Half a dozen vehicles ended up damaged on this stretch of Route 209.
The coroner says Ferarra was on her way to work. She wasn't wearing a seatbelt. She was thrown from the car and died.
"I saw her car. I saw it in the road and I saw it being pulled away and I'm very sad, I'm very sad for her family. My prayers go out to them," said Hetzler.
The stretch of Route 209 was closed for hours, causing lots of issues for folks trying to get to work and school in this Brodheadsville area.
"We had to close down Route 209 at Dairy Lane down to Silver Valley so I'm sure it caused a lot of people to have to go around. We made sure to notify the school district so they could get kids on the bus and still get them to school," explained West End Fire Chief John McKeever.
Nancy Dyska runs a day care center and Big Cheese Pizza Shop right along Route 209 where this crash happened.
"We had to go through the back road to try to get in here to get into the shopping center, and then we had to direct parents and staff on how to get in and get out."
Dyska says the intersection of Route 209 and Lake Mineola Road has seen several deadly crashes, and this latest one is another reminder of how dangerous the road can be.
"This time of year, any kind of tragedy during a holiday season is bad for people to have to face that."