Jeff Lees, the coroner for Cambria County, has identified the person who was driving the wrong way and was killed in an accident that occurred on Route 219 on Wednesday evening. The accident was caused by a vehicle who was traveling in the wrong direction. According to Lees, Ricky Baxter, 63 years old, a resident of South Fork Borough, was confirmed deceased at the scene at 8:55 p.m. He was a resident of South Fork Borough. According to Lees, the findings of a preliminary investigation indicate that Baxter was driving in the wrong direction; however, the authorities do not know why this was the case.
Lees believes that multiple blunt force trauma, in addition to the fact that Baxter was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the collision, contributed to Baxter’s passing away. The authorities from the Richland Township Police Department have provided additional information regarding the fatal collision that occurred on Route 219 on Wednesday evening. The tragedy claimed the lives of both drivers involved.
A man from South Fork, Wisconsin, aged 63, was driving northbound in the lane designated for southbound traffic when, according to the police captain Rick Pollino, he was involved in a head-on collision with a man from Mineral Point, Wisconsin, aged 23. The collision occurred when the man from South Fork, Wisconsin, was driving northbound in the lane designated for southbound traffic. According to the police, 911 workers began receiving reports concerning a vehicle traveling in the incorrect direction on the road just a few minutes before the collision took place.
The second driver was sent to Conemaugh Hospital for treatment, while the investigators said that the 63-year-old man who was involved in the accident was pronounced dead at the site. It is currently impossible to determine his state of health. As of the time that this article was written, the Cambria County Coroner’s office had not made public the identity of the guy who had been killed in the crash.
