Saturday, July 11, 2015

A mother and her 9-year old boy killed, 4 other family members seriously injured when a UPS box truck collided with a buggy in central Pennsylvania. The horse was also killed.

 



 

Truck hits buggy in central Pennsylvania, killing woman, boy, injuring 4 other family members.  The horse was also killed.

Posted: July 11, 2015
 
LOGANTON, PA. (AP) - 

Authorities say a truck struck a horse and buggy in central Pennsylvania, killing a woman and a 9-year-old boy and seriously injuring four other people.

State police in Clinton County say the front bumper of the eastbound UPS box truck hit the front end of the horse and buggy shortly before 7 p.m. Friday in Logan Township.

Police said the 36-year-old Rachel Byler of Loganton and the child were killed. The boy's name was not released.

State police say a 37-year-old man, two boys aged 13 and 14, and an 11-year-old girl were left with major injuries.

Authorities said the truck traveled 100 feet after the collision and hit a tree. The 65-year-old woman who was driving was reported to have a minor injury.

Police said the cause of the crash is under investigation.


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LOGANTON, PA

A mother and her son were killed Friday night when the horse-drawn buggy in which they were riding was struck by a UPS delivery truck in Clinton County.

Rachel Beiler, 36, and her son, David, 13, of Loganton, were pronounced dead at the scene from blunt force trauma by Clinton County Coroner Zach Hanna. The horse also was killed, state police said.

The truck, operated by Sherry L. Croak, 55, of Lock Haven and the buggy, driven by Aaron Beiler, 37, husband and father of the deceased, were going the opposite direction on West Winter Road in Loganton when the accident occurred about 6:45 p.m.

The truck struck the horse and buggy with the driver's side bumper causing the buggy to roll onto its side, police said. The truck continued approximately 100 feet and struck a tree.

Aaron Beiler was reported in critical condition Saturday at Geisinger Medical Center near Danville. An 11-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl also are patients at Geisinger. Their conditions were not available because state police did not disclose their names due to their ages, but investigators said each suffered major injuries. Croak suffered a minor injury, police said.

No charges have been filed pending the completion of an in-depth investigation, troopers said.