Eleven members of the University of Scranton women's volleyball team were hurt in a chain-reaction crash on a rain-soaked highway while heading to a tournament in the Virgin Islands.
Brooke Hinkley, the 21-year-old captain, remained in fair condition in hospital, school spokesman Stan Zygmunt said Friday.
The four-vehicle accident started Wednesday night when a car lost control on the Pennsylvania Turnpike about 30 kilometres outside of Philadelphia, hit a guardrail and stopped in the centre of the road, police said.
A sport utility vehicle carrying five members of the volleyball team couldn't avoid the car and crashed into it. A third car became involved and was then struck by a second SUV that carried six team members and a parent driver, police said.
Ten players, one student assistant coach and a parent were taken to hospital, Zygmunt said. Three were admitted but two were later released.
The team was bound for Philadelphia en route to the tournament. Scranton, a private Jesuit university, is about 160 kilometres north of Philadelphia.
© The Canadian Press, 2007
