Crime & Safety
Two Pennsylvnia Women Die In Crash After Streaming Facebook Live While Driving: Report
An 18-year-old and a 19-year-old died in a fiery wreck Tuesday night on Interstate 380, according to reports.
Two teenage Pennsylvania women died as a result of a vehicle crash that stemmed from the driver streaming live on Facebook.
According to the Scranton Times-Tribune, the crash occurred Tuesday night on Interstate 380 near Tobyhanna, Monroe County when Brooke Miranda Hughes was driving and began using Facebook's live streaming video tool.
Shortly after the video began, the crash occurred as a tractor-trailer hit the vehicle Hughes was driving from behind.
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Both Hughes, 18, of Scranton, and her passenger Chaniya Morrison-Toomey, 19, of Dunmore, died in the crash and were pronounced dead at the scene, the outlet reports.
The Times-Tribune described the crash as "fiery" which has made the investigation into the crash difficult for authorities.
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The outer reports the truck driver, Michael Jay Parks, of Tobyhanna, was injured and it is unclear if he will be charged.
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