2 Young Bucks County Women Killed In Separate, Tragic Traffic Crashes

Two heartbreaking funerals will be held Saturday in Bucks County.

Families of two local women will lay their loved ones to rest after the deaths in two separate and equally tragic New Jersey traffic crashes.

Megan Longo Villanella, a 2000 Council Rock graduate, was killed March 3 while waiting for a bus in Verona, N.J.

Lea Nicole Sterner Pringle, 39, of Lower Makefield was killed Tuesday after being hit by a car in Trenton, N.J.

Villanella was due with her second child in May. The baby did not survive the crash. Anthony V. Casale, Jr., 25, has been charged with first degree death by auto in connection with her death. Police say he was driving while under the influence.

Police say around 7:45 a.m. that morning, Villanella and her 30-year-old brother were waiting at a bus stop when Casale struck them in a 2006 white Mitsubishi. Villanella sustained fatal injuries and her brother was critically injured.

Villanella lived most of her life in Ivyland, attending Churchville Elementary School and graduating high school with honors, her obituary says. She was married with a 22-month-old daughter, Isabelle Ava.

Services for Villanella are Saturday in Richboro.

Pringle was a 1997 Pennsbury graduate and the mother of two children. Police are still searching for the driver of the car that struck Pringle on North Olden Avenue around 12:30 a.m., according to NJ.com.

Her family describes her as a "devoted, proud, and wonderful" mother to her children.

Services for Pringle are Saturday in Yardley.

Photo 1: Megan Villanella, from her obituary. Photo 2: Lea Pringle, from her obituary