Lacrosse-team bus crashes; pregnant coach, driver die

Associated Press

CARLISLE, Pa.

A road trip by a college women’s lacrosse team came to a horrifying end Saturday when the team bus veered off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and crashed into a tree, killing a pregnant coach, her unborn child and the driver, and injuring numerous others, authorities said.

Seton Hill University team players and coaches were among the 23 people aboard when the bus crashed just before 9 a.m. No other vehicle was involved, and police could not say immediately what caused the accident.

Coach Kristina Quigley, 30, of Greensburg was flown to a hospital but died there of injuries she suffered in the crash, Cumberland County authorities said. Quigley was about six months pregnant, and her unborn child did not survive, authorities said. The bus driver, Anthony Guaetta, 61, of Johnstown died at the scene.

The other passengers were removed from the bus within an hour and taken to hospitals as a precaution.

The lacrosse team was headed to play Saturday afternoon at Millersville University, about 50 miles from the crash site in central Pennsylvania, for its fourth game of the year.

Both Saturday’s game and a Sunday home game were canceled after the crash, and Seton Hill, a Catholic school of about 2,500 students near Pittsburgh, said a memorial Mass was planned for tonight on campus.