One killed, four
injured in I-95 crash

An alleged drunken driver triggered a five-vehicle pileup on Interstate 95 on Friday that claimed the life of a Philadelphia man, injured four others and snarled traffic near the Bridge Street exit for hours.
Steven Hafto, 25, of Berlin, N.J., was barreling recklessly down the southbound lanes of the highway at about 10 a.m. in a late-model Chevrolet Monte Carlo, witnesses told police, when he rammed into the back of a 1993 Ford Ranger.
As the pickup truck flipped across the highway and over the median guardrail into oncoming traffic, two occupants were ejected from the vehicle. The driver, Ferdinand Ramirez-Villaneuva, 50, of Philadelphia, was pronounced dead at the scene, while a passenger, Anna Torres, 49, was taken to Hahnemann University Hospital in stable condition with undisclosed injuries.
Pennsylvania State Police, the lead agency investigating the crash, withheld addresses for the victims.
Two northbound vehicles struck the bounding pickup truck. A 47-year-old man driving a Ford taxi and a 37-year-old man driving a 2002 Lexus were each treated for minor injuries.
Hafto’s car, after hitting the pickup truck, veered into a southbound 1992 Honda Prelude. The 53-year-old woman driver of the Honda also suffered minor injuries, police said.
Hafto, who had no reported injuries, was arrested at the scene and charged with driving while under the influence, homicide by vehicle and involuntary manslaughter, along with multiple counts of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and related offenses. He was arraigned on Saturday and held in lieu of $330,000 bail. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Wednesday.
Police did not release the results of a blood-alcohol content test on Hafto.
After the crash, the highway was shut down in both directions for over an hour with traffic detoured along State Road and Aramingo Avenue. As the wreck was cleared and the investigation continued, police reopened the highway in stages over the next several hours. ••