Chester County

Head-on, wrong-way crash leaves 2 dead, 2 hurt

Two drivers died and two passengers were hurt in a head-on crash along the northbound lanes of U.S. Route 202 in East Whiteland Township on July 14, 2023

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A driver has died days after a wrong-way wreck that claimed the life of another driver along a busy Chester County road.

The deadly wreck took place around 12:20 a.m. Friday, July 14, along northbound U.S. Route 202 near mile marker 17.2 in East Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania State Police, Troop J, Embreeville Station said in a news release.

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State police said that a preliminary investigation found that a 2015 GMC Sierra driven by Matthew Deangelis was going southbound in the northbound lanes of Route 202 -- near Mill Lane -- when the vehicle slammed head-on into a 2022 Volkswagen Taos.

Deangelis died at the scene, police said. He was 42.

All three people in the Taos SUV were rushed to a nearby hospital with "suspected life-threating injuries," police said.

On Tuesday, state police said that the 19-year-old driver of the Taos -- Li Lucian of Lititz, Lancaster County -- died Monday from his injuries.

Two passengers in the Taos -- young men from Carmel, Indiana, and Blacklick, Indiana -- remained in critical, but stable condition at the hospital, police said.

Multiple agencies investigated the crash, which was cleared ahead of the Friday morning rush.

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