Driver Dies After Striking Embankment, Tree and Home

A car crash in Northampton County on Thursday morning left the driver of the car dead after crashing into an embankment, a tree, a flower bed and then a home.

The driver of the car, 21-year-old Mathew Irizarry, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash at 1325 Morgan Hill Road in Williams Township by the Northampton County Coroner's Office.

On Thursday morning at approximately 9:11 a.m. Irizarry was traveling in the southbound lane of Morgan Hill Road (the wrong side of the road) when he switched to the northbound lane and lost control of the car, an official report stated.

The car then traveled off the shoulder of the roadway and struck an embankment with the passenger side of the front bumper. The car continued traveling northeast up the embankment and struck a tree with the passenger side of the car. After this the car went airborne and traveled over the driveway of 1325 Morgan Hill Road, struck a raised flower bed with its driver side and roof, and then traveled across the front yard and struck the front of the home with its front bumper and roof, officials said.

The car has been towed from the scene and there is no information on whether anyone was in the home at the time of the crash, no other injuries have been reported.

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