Beaver County woman pronounced dead after car accident in Somerset

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Brothersvalley Township, PA) A Beaver County woman passed away on Friday from a car accident in Somerset, Pennsylvania near Glades Pike on Route 31 at around 7 a.m. Pennsylvania State Police identified the victim as thirty-seven-year-old Meghan S. Kelker of Rochester. Kelker did not execute a right-hand curve when switching lanes and hit another vehicle. The driver that was hit had a minor injury and was taken to UPMC Somerset following the crash. Kelker was pronounced dead at 8:52 a.m. by Somerset County Chief Deputy Coroner Alexis Lichty. According to Coroner Cullen Swank, multiple blunt force injuries caused Kelker’s death.