Rescue crews from four departments respond to a deadly two-vehicle crash along the Shenango Valley Freeway, Friday, Nov. 8, 2013 in Sharon, Pa. Two high school football players died Friday night in the crash that also killed a third person, according to state high school sports officials. The two-vehicle crash occurred at about 10 p.m. in Sharon, about 50 miles north of Pittsburgh along the Ohio state line. Two members of the Sharon High School football team were killed and two others were hurt, according to a statement posted on the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association’s District 10 website. (AP Photo/The Herald, Cory Byknish) MANDATORY CREDIT
Football Players Fatal Crash
Rescue crews from four departments respond to a deadly two-vehicle crash along the Shenango Valley Freeway, Friday, Nov. 8, 2013 in Sharon, Pa. Two high school football players died Friday night in the crash that also killed a third person, according to state high school sports officials. The two-vehicle crash occurred at about 10 p.m. in Sharon, about 50 miles north of Pittsburgh along the Ohio state line. Two members of the Sharon High School football team were killed and two others were hurt, according to a statement posted on the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association’s District 10 website. (AP Photo/The Herald, Cory Byknish) MANDATORY CREDIT
Football Players Fatal Crash
Rescue crews from four departments respond to a deadly two-vehicle crash along the Shenango Valley Freeway, Friday, Nov. 8, 2013 in Sharon, Pa. Two high school football players died Friday night in the crash that also killed a third person, according to state high school sports officials. The two-vehicle crash occurred at about 10 p.m. in Sharon, about 50 miles north of Pittsburgh along the Ohio state line. Two members of the Sharon High School football team were killed and two others were hurt, according to a statement posted on the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association’s District 10 website. (AP Photo/The Herald, Cory Byknish) MANDATORY CREDIT
Prev
1 of 3
Next
SHARON, Pa. (AP) — Two high school football players died Friday night in a crash in western Pennsylvania that also killed a third person and injured four others, authorities said.
Sharon City School District Superintendent Mike Calla told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that players Corey Swartz and Evan Gill were killed in the two-vehicle crash on the Shenango Valley Freeway at about 10 p.m. in Sharon, about 50 miles northwest of Pittsburgh along the Ohio state line.
Calla said two other players, twins Greg and Craig Osmon, were injured and being treated at a hospital in Youngstown, Ohio.
The Sharon Herald reported two children, ages 10 and 12, were riding in the back of a pickup truck in which the driver died. One child was flown to a burn unit and the other was hospitalized.
A playoff game scheduled for Saturday in Erie between Sharon High and Girard High School was postponed by the state athletic association. It will be played on Monday night.
Phone messages left Saturday by The Associated Press for Sharon’s police department and the school district were not immediately returned. The Mercer County coroner’s office said it may release some information about the crash later Saturday.
