The Daily Item, Sunbury, PA

July 3, 2009

2 die in head-on crash


MONROEVILLE (AP) — Two people are dead from a head-on traffic crash in southwestern Pennsylvania.

The Westmoreland County coroner's office says an elderly man was declared dead at the scene of Thursday afternoon's crash of a sport utility vehicle and a van on Route 130 in Penn Township. A woman believed to be his wife died at Forbes Regional Hospital in Monroeville, about 11 miles east of Pittsburgh.

The victims' names weren't immediately released.