FedEx driver Brad Loomis heads to the Lycoming County Prison following his arraignment Monday night on city police charges. He admitted he intentionally caused a crash on Interstate 180 during rush hour traffic, police alleged. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette

At the height of rush hour traffic on Interstate 180 late Monday afternoon, a FedEx delivery truck driver, who said he had a death wish, intentionality drove his vehicle into a car in another lane, causing a crash just west of the city-Loyalsock Township line, city police said.

Neither the truck driver, Brad Loomis, nor the operator of the car, Penny Pardoe, was injured, police said.

The two vehicles collided in the eastbound lanes of the interstate, landing in the grassy median just before 5 p.m., police said. The collision occuured as Loomis merged from the right lane into the left lane, police said.

Loomis, 50, of 162 E. Water St., Hughesville, “made several comments that he had caused the crash intentionally because Pardoe wouldn’t allow him to merge and that he wanted to die,” according to a police affidavit.

“Loomis attempted to barricade himself several times in the cabin section of his truck while police officers were speaking with him,” the affidavit stated. The truck had a gross weight of 12,300 pounds.

Neither driver was hurt in this crash on I-180 in the city on Monday, but the FedEx driver was jailed on charges of aggravated assault, DUI and a third offense, police said. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette

“At one point. Loomis pulled a knife out of his pocket after stating he wanted to die,” the court document stated.

“Loomis did smell of alcohol, but the odor was faint until he was in the back of an ambulance being medically evaluated” by paramedics, police said.

The affidavit stated Loomis, who admitted “to drinking vodka,” was “very unsteady on his feet, had thick slurred speech and glassy bloodshot eyes.”

A breathalyzer test done at the scene confirmed “the presence of an alcoholic beverage” in his system, police said.

Once he was medically cleared at the scene, the handcuffed Loomis was placed in the back of a police cruiser and taken to have his blood drawn at UPMC Williamsport. A sample was obtained and his BAC results will be available at a later date, court records stated.

It took several officers to get Loomis into the back of the police cruiser. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette

While in custody, Loomis “threatened to ‘kill’ police several times, it was alleged in the affidavit.

He also spit on the carpet at the hospital,” police said.

Following his arraignment before District Judge Christian Frey on charges of aggravated assault, recklessly endangering and DUI, Loomis was committed to the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $95,000