Suspected DUI Kills 2 Sisters In PA Turnpike Crash: Police

BRECKNOCK TOWNSHIP, PA — Two people were killed in a crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Lancaster County after a suspected drunk driver drove the wrong way down the road, according to authorities and media reports.

The incident, which involved several vehicles, occurred as the flash freeze set at around 10 p.m. on Dec. 23.

The tractor trailer was heading east in the westbound lanes on mile marker 291.2 in Brecknock Township, Local 21 reports.

The truck hit a Ford F250 truck head-on, killing two women who were later identified as sisters. They were identified as Mariana and Nubia Llivipuma, from Ecuador, Fox43 reports.

A third man who was inside the Ford was injured, police said.

The driver was arrested but has not yet been identified and specific charges have not yet been announced. Pennsylvania State Police are continuing to investigate.

Nubia's daughter Kerly Alvarracin has launched a GoFundMe for the family to help pay for funeral costs and send the bodies of the sisters back to Ecuador. She called the pair "joyous people."

"I am going to miss them a lot," Kerly wrote in Spanish. "Not having them together anymore by my side, since they were my world. And today the house feels empty, sad, and alone without their laughter, without their jokes."

Service details are forthcoming.