Crime & Safety
Forks Police Investigating Fatal Crash
Two people killed in Forks Township in one-vehicle accident Tuesday afternoon.
The Foks Township Police Department is continuing to investigate the cause of a one-vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon that killed a 47-year-old man and his daughter.
Police are focusing on what role a pedestrian may have had in the accident, according to the Easton Express-Times.
Witnesses said that the vehicle struck a tree on Paxinosa Road after the driver swerved to avoid hitting a woman who was walking her dog. The story states the woman is the wife of former Forks Supervisor C. David Howell.
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On Wednesday, the victims were identified as Charles C. and Juliana Eberharter, who lived in the 500 block of Paxinosa Road East, where the crash occurred.
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