Pennsylvania

2 Die, 2 Hurt as Speed, Alcohol-Fueled Wreck Torches Porch of Pennsylvania Home: Police

Authorities said speed and alcohol were factors in a central Pennsylvania crash that killed two people, injured two others and sent one vehicle into the porch of a home, setting the porch on fire.

Northern York County Regional police said a sport utility vehicle failed to stop at a stop sign in Paradise Township just after 5 p.m. Friday and collided with an eastbound sedan, then rolled several times, came to rest against the porch and burst into flames.

Police said 98-year-old sedan passenger Carlton Jacobs died at the scene. A 71-year-old woman riding in the sedan and the 70-year-old man driving the sedan were taken to the hospital.

The SUV driver, 32-year-old Kevin Shaffer, of New Oxford, was flown to York Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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