A driver died as his car was ripped apart -- a section of it coming to rest at a gas station -- after it collided with a pickup truck in Northeast Philadelphia Thursday morning.
The wreck took place at the corner of Byberry Road and Bustleton Avenue in the Somerton neighborhood just before 5:30 a.m., Philadelphia police accident investigators said.
A driver in a 2007 red Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS was going at a high-rate of speed northbound on Bustleton when the car smashed into a black Chevy Silverado pickup truck attempting to left turn onto eastbound Byberry from the southbound lanes, accident investigators said.
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The force of the crash caused the red sedan to strike a pole and split in two, investigators said. The back of the car came to rest against a pole near the intersection and the front half next to a gas pump. Medics rushed the driver, later identified as 44-year-old Jose Moses Sadler, to the hospital where he died about an hour later.
The pickup truck had significant damage to its front and came to rest on a sidewalk. The 67-year-old pickup driver wasn't hurt, investigators said.
An off-duty police officer witnessed the crash and surveillance video captured the wreck, police said.
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Neighbors told NBC10's Miguel Martinez-Valle that the intersection is dangerous and this wasn't the first crash there. There was even a crash at the same intersection just last week.
"There was debris (on the pole) from an accident last week," neighbor Kendal Smith said.
The crash remained under investigation Thursday and no charges were immediately filed.
