Authorities say the six people killed during an 80-vehicle pileup on a Pennsylvania interstate during a snow squall earlier this week included four men and two women.
on a Pennsylvania interstate during a snow squall earlier this week included four men and two women, authorities said.
Schuylkill County Deputy Coroner Albert Barnes said Friday that the victims of Monday’s crash on Interstate 81 were between 40 to 70 years old and were burned beyond recognition, the Republican-Herald"All of the decedents were found in the group of vehicles that were on fire," Barnes said. Two were found in a box truck that was one of the first vehicles involved in the crash. They are believed to be from Montgomery County in Pennsylvania. Also killed was a man in a tractor-trailer, a man and woman in a car and another man in a car, all believed to have been from out of state.
The names of those killed will be released by state police as soon as a positive identity is made and families are notified. "Right now we’re 99.8 percent sure, but we want to be 100 percent sure," he said. "We expect all identifications and notifications to be made in the near future."
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