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Story by Sandy Giordano, Beaver County Radio News Correspondent

(Hopewell Twp., Beaver County, Pa.) Pa State Police in Beaver are reporting that a sudden onset of bad weather caused a three vehicle accident on I-376 in Hopewell Township Saturday.  Delbert V. Howze, 64 of Aliquippa  was  travelling east during a burst of bad weather and another vehicle operated by Vincent W. Harmon, and a third vehicle operated by Khalil Lamis, 32 , of Southfield, MI were all eastbound when they came across  a single vehicle crash.  Traffic slowed and came to a stop, according to  state police.  Lamis, vehicle, swerved to avoid stopped traffic , and left the roadway coming to rest in the median .Harmon’s vehicle  was able to stop and  was struck by Howze’s vehicle  Howze’s vehicle left the roadway, ricocheted off a guard wire  before coming to rest against Lamis’s vehicle. Lamis’s vehicle sustained  minor damage  from Howze’s vehicle. Lamis  reported no injuries. Harmon’s vehicle sustained  rear end  damage  and both juveniles in the vehicle were transported to Heritage Valley  Sewickley for head, neck, and back pain. Howze’s vehicle had disabling damage and he had to be extricated from the vehicle, he also sustained, head, neck, and back pain  and also was transported to HV Sewickley. Howze and Lamis’s vehicle had to be towed from the scene.