Seton Hill University holds Memorial Mass for lacrosse team bus crash victims
Seton Hill University held a memorial Mass on Sunday evening to mourn those killed when the women's lacrosse team bus crashed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Meanwhile, a state police investigation into Saturday's triple fatality continued.
Seton Hill University held a memorial Mass on Sunday evening to mourn those killed when the women's lacrosse team bus crashed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Meanwhile, a state police investigation into Saturday's triple fatality continued.
"It's probably going to be days, if not weeks" to determine the cause of the crash, state police Cpl. John Rosenberger said.
The team was headed from Greensburg to Lancaster on Saturday morning for a match against Millersville University when the bus veered off the road, jumped a guardrail and fence, and hit a tree.
Head coach Kristina Quigley, who was six months pregnant, was pronounced dead at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Her baby boy did not survive, the university said in a statement.
The bus driver, Anthony Guaetta, 61, of Johnstown, died at the scene.
Two passengers remained in serious condition Sunday afternoon at Hershey Medical Center, Rosenberger said. Two players from the Philadelphia area - Nicole Rossi of Collegeville and Rachel Hilbert of Perkiomenville - were treated at hospitals near the crash site and released.
The roads were considered damp with light rain and snow Saturday morning, Rosenberger said, but it's too early to tell whether weather played a role in the crash.
U.S. Department of Transportation records show that the bus company, Mlaker Transportation Inc. of Davidsville, Pa., had a good safety and inspection history. The company has 55 drivers operating 23 school buses and 16 motor coaches. No accidents had been reported in the last two years.
The collision Saturday happened just days after another college lacrosse team bus - from St. Michael's College in Vermont - crashed in New York and six weeks after a bus filled with Bucks County students hit an overpass on the way back from visiting Harvard University in Boston.
Quigley, 30, is survived by her husband, Glenn, and young son, Gavin, the university said.
She arrived at Seton Hill, a small Catholic school near Pittsburgh, in 2012 and led the team to 11 wins in her first season.
This season, the women's lacrosse team volunteered at soup kitchens, gave Christmas gifts to foster children, and dedicated a February game to autism awareness.