Crime & Safety
UPDATE: Two Children Die in Connoquenessing Crash
Icy road conditions are being blamed for the rollover accident.
Icy roads are being blamed for a car accident that claimed the lives of two children on Lower Harmony Road in Connoquenessing Wednesday morning.
State police said a mother and her two young children were in the car when she lost control of the vehicle and skidded off the road at about 10:30 a.m. The car rolled over and the roof above the second row of seating, where the children were located, struck a tree.
The mother has been identified as 32-year-old Elisabeth McCullough, of Main Street in Harmony, according to state police. She suffered minor injuries in the crash.
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State police said the children killed were Liam Bintrim, 3, and Declan McCullough, who would have celebrated his first birthday Friday, the Post-Gazette reports.
Troopers said the children were properly seat-belted and restrained, according to the PG.
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The icy road conditions also caused about 50 car accidents around Butler County Wednesday morning. Route 422 West reopened between Route 8 and Route 356 at about 3:30 p.m. after being closed for several hours because of an overturned tractor-trailer, according to PennDOT.
State Route 422 East in Summit Township also is reopen in both directions between Heist and Carbon Center roads. The highway was closed earlier because of a multi-vehicle crash.
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