A spattering of snow flurries mixed with frigid temperatures iced up roads and caused a cluster of crashes Monday night.

In West Donegal Township, a pickup truck driven by Gerald Reuter, 78, of Elizabethtown, spun off the slick road and into a house in the 1600 block of Turnpike Road shortly before 9 p.m.

Northwest Regional police Officer Frank Ember said the vehicle, which landed on snowmobiles and jet skis, struck the side of the house, causing some interior damage.

Reuter was taken to Lancaster General Hospital with minor injuries, Ember said.

Ember said roads in the area were "extremely icy" and "very dangerous."

Also in the county's northwest, units responded to a report of a vehicle hitting a tree in the 1600 block of Mount Gretna Road in Mount Joy Township.

Fire officials reported icy conditions and requested that township road crews be notified of conditions. Shortly after 10 p.m., a law-enforcement official in the northwest reported Route 230 to be "a sheet of glass."

Two crashes were reported in the county's southern end.

In Fulton Township, a vehicle struck a pole in the 2500 block of Robert Fulton Highway around 8 p.m.

A few minutes later in East Drumore Township, a head-on crash occurred in the area of Robert Fulton Highway and Solanco Road.

No serious injuries were reported in those wrecks. Emergency responders there reported icy conditions.
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