SUNBURY — A Sunbury teenager and a Dalmatia woman remained hospitalized in critical condition late Friday after a three-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon on Route 147 in Upper Augusta Township.
Evan Witmer, 16, and Ellen E. Clement, 44, were listed in critical condition at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, according to a nursing supervisor.
Eight people were injured in the crash. Three teens were listed in fair condition Friday. Two other accident victims were released Friday from Geisinger. The condition of the eighth accident victim was not known Friday.
The teenaged occupants of a 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier involved the crash say the car hydroplaned moments before it clipped a minivan and then slammed head-first into a pickup truck.
Ian Scheller, 16, of Sunbury, was taken by LifeFlight helicopter to Geisinger after the 3:51 p.m. crash. His condition, initially critical, was upgraded to fair on Friday. Also listed in fair condition Friday were Jacob Witmer and Tonaya Murray. Teenager Sarah Young was treated and released, according to hospital records.
The teens, ages 15 and 16 and of Sunbury or Northumberland, are all expected to recover.
Scheller, who was driving the Cavalier northbound on Route 147, told his parents he overcompensated when the car hydroplaned and hit the first of two southbound vehicles — the first, a 2001 Chevrolet Venture van driven by Brian Dyer, 43, of Dalmatia — then a 2005 GMC Canyon truck, driven by Clement.
Scheller’s parents on Friday said the other teens gave the same report.
Many of the teenagers’ classmates visited them at Geisinger on Friday. Scheller’s soccer coach visited and gave him his varsity letter.
Judy Dyer, 42, a passenger in the Chevrolet Venture, was treated and released from Geisinger. A 17-year-old boy in Dyer’s vehicle was also injured.
The front of the Cavalier was crushed by the pickup truck. The crash threw the pickup truck into a ditch on the west side of the road.
Fire and rescue personnel had to cut the roof off the Cavalier to extricate four of the teens from the car. A fifth teenager was thrown from the car upon impact with the GMC truck.
The accident was the third involving a teen driver in the past two weeks. On Wednesday, a Danville area teen was killed when he crashed his car in Columbia County. Bradley Ellis Utt, 18, a student at Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech, died when his vehicle hit a tree along a road near Buckhorn.
Two weeks ago, another Danville teen was seriously injured, and later died, after crashing a car filled with friends on Route 642 in Montour County.
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