One man lost his life and two others were injured in a grinding two-car crash Friday in Rush Township.

According to Sgt. Duane Frederick, Rush Township Police, Raymond J. Poreca, 76, Hometown, was killed when his vehicle collided with a car driven by a Lansford woman as Poreca was attempting to exit a parking area on Claremont Avenue (Route 309) just north of Ben Titus Road in Still Creek at 5:40 p.m.Police said Poreca, driving a 1991 Ford Fiesta, exited a gas station parking lot and attempted to cross over two northbound lanes to go south when his vehicle collided with a 1999 Ford explorer driven by Dawn Miller, 35, Lansford, who was traveling in the northbound left lane.Poreca was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:17 p.m. by Deputy Coroner David Trusckowsky.Miller was tended to at the scene by paramedics of Tamaqua Community Ambulance before being airlifted to Lehigh Valley Cedar Crest Hospital by Lehigh Valley Hospital's MedEvac air transport. The extent of her injuries is unknown.Miller had a 16-year-old female and four-week-old female infant in her vehicle and both were not injured.The collision took place near Wesner Street about 100 feet north of the intersection of Claremont and Ben Titus Road.Northbound traffic on the four-lane highway was rerouted east on Ben Titus Road to Route 93 while southbound was delayed as an accident reconstruction team completed their investigation.Others responding included Hazleton APTS Ambulance, McAdoo Fire Company, Hometown Fire Company and Hometown Fire Police.Frederick noted that the crash was the fourth motor vehicle fatality in Rush Township since August 8, or four highway deaths in less than three months.Two hours after the fatal crash, emergency responders were dispatched to another two-car collision two miles away at Claremont Avenue and Tide Road at the traffic light by the entrance to HT Commons Shopping Center.Details of that incident were not available.