LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — A 79-year-old woman died Tuesday in a head-on crash in Luzerne County, state police at Wilkes-Barre said.
Authorities identified the deceased from Tuesday morning's crash in Buck Twp. as Helen C. Grube, of Blakeslee.
Grube died at the scene of a crash that happened just before 10 a.m. on state Route 115, just south of Ridgeway Avenue., state police said.
Grube, state police said, was struck head-on by a southbound car that for some reason swerved into Grube's northbound lane.
The driver of the other car, Jeanette L. Chappell, 47, of Mountain Top, suffered serious injuries and was rushed by ambulance to Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center.
The crash remains under investigation, state police said.