6/5/17
by News Department on 06/05/17Fatal crash...
One woman is dead after a crash, over the weekend, in Luzerne County.
Police say it happened along Hazle Township Boulevard near Hazleton around 3 p.m., when a car rear ended another vehicle causing it to lose control and strike a utility pole.
The people inside the vehicle, Richard Palushock and 94-year-old Rose Marie Lombardo, of Hazleton, had to be taken out of the vehicle using the Jaws of Life and transported to Lehigh Valley Hospital Cedar Crest.
Lombardo later died of her injuries.
The first car's driver, Christopher Ecker of Hazleton, was uninjured and was operating the car without the owner's permission.
