CARLISLE, Pa. — A tour bus carrying a college’s women’s lacrosse team to a game went off the Pennsylvania Turnpike yesterday and crashed into a tree, killing the pregnant head coach and the driver and sending others to hospitals, authorities said.
Lacrosse players from Seton Hill University of Greensburg, Pa., and three coaches were among the 23 people aboard when the bus crashed at about 9 a.m., a turnpike spokeswoman said.
It’s not clear what caused the crash, said Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County Public Safety Department.
Head coach Kristie Quigley, 30, of Greensburg, was flown to a hospital and died there from injuries, Cumberland County authorities said.
They say Quigley was about six months pregnant, and her unborn child did not survive. The driver, Anthony Guaetta, 61, of Johnstown, died at the scene.
Two other victims were flown by helicopter to Penn State Hershey Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said.
The lacrosse team was headed to play yesterday afternoon at Millersville University. Quigley was married and had a son, Gavin, the school said.