UPDATE: Drivers in Friday's Route 6 Crash Identified

UPDATE March 5: New York State police issued a press release about the fatal crash Friday on Route 6 that killed one Kennedy Catholic High School teacher and injured another.

Police were called to the accident at about 3:45 p.m. from the Somers barracks.

They say their investigation revealed that 48-year-old Christina Deagan of Cortlandt Manor, New York, was traveling westbound on State Route 6 when for an unknown reason, her vehicle entered the eastbound lane.

Deagan’s 2003 Suzuki struck a 2011 Honda, operated by Marie Murphy, age 83, of Somers, New York, head-on.

A passenger in Murphy's vehicle, Barbara Heil, age 80, was pronounced deceased at the scene. Both Deagan and Murphy were transported to Westchester Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.

The State Police were assisted by the Westchester County Medical Examiner’s Office, Somers Police and Fire Departments, Yorktown Police Department and Empress EMS.

SEE: 2 Kennedy Catholic Teachers Victims in Route 6 Crash Friday

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UPDATE March 5: Sister Barbara Heil, a longtime teacher at Kennedy Catholic High School in Somers, died Friday in an auto accident that closed busy Route 6 in Yorktown for hours.

Another teacher, Sister Marie Murphy, was hospitalized with serious injuries.

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UPDATE 4:52PM: Detour Information from the New York DOT:

If you're eastbound: take US Hwy 6 to Route 6N north to Stillwater Road, then east to Baldwin Place Road, then south, return to US Hwy 6.

If you're westbound, take US Hwy 6 to Baldwin Place Road, turn north to Stillwater Road, then west to State Hwy 6N south, return to US Hwy 6.

For more information on Trans Alert, visit FAQs ("https://users.nyalert.gov/HelpIndex/DisplayTextItem.aspx?itemID=192&Audit=true") .

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Yorktown police sent out an alert at 4:23PM advising motorists to avoid Route 6 in the vicinity of Curry Street for the next two hours.

Emergency responders are dealing with an auto accident with life-threatening injuries.

Route 6 is closed at Whispering Pine.