A Pleasant Valley teacher was injured in the crash Monday night after a Nesquehoning police car crossed the line on  Route 209 in Nesquehoning. Michael Sauers, 64, is a second grade teacher in Pleasant Valley Elementary School, according to assistant superintendent Chris Fisher.

Sauers’ wife, Carola, 69,  Carola Sauers, 69, was pronounced dead at St. Luke's Hospital Network, Fountain Hill, where she was flown after the 6:30 p.m. crash, according to a news release from trooper Shawn M. Noonan of state police at Lehighton. She was a passenger in a car driven by Sauers, 64.Sauers lives in Hazleton.Sauers was also taken to St. Luke's with severe injuries. Nursing staff early Tuesday said the hospital had no information on Sauers' condition.The patrolman, Stephen Homanko, 25, of Beaver Meadows, suffered moderate injuries. He was taken by ambulance to Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Township. Nursing staff early Tuesday said they had no information on him.The crash happened, according to state police, when Homanko lost control of the 2009 Crown Victoria police cruiser as he rounded a curve about one and one-half miles north of the intersection of routes 209 and 93, between Nesquehoning and Jim Thorpe.According to scanner reports, Homanko was pursuing a yellow Dodge Neon. The reason is unknown.His cruiser crossed into the oncoming lane, where its left rear quarter hit the front bumper of Sauers' vehicle.The state police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Specialist Unit was called to help in the crash investigation.Police from Nesquehoning, Jim Thorpe, Lehighton and Beaver Meadows also assisted at the crash scene.Route 209 was closed for hours.Just  minutes after the crash police stopped a Dodge Neon in the vicinity of Fourth Street in Jim Thorpe.Two people appeared to be taken into custody, according to a Times News reporter on the scene. Police have released no details of this incident.Attempts to obtain more information from the borough departments was met with referrals to state police.Details of the any possible link between the crash and the two people police took into custody between 7 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. remain murky.Police took the man and woman into custody at Fourth Street, between Center and North streets. The woman was driving the car, a yellow Neon, which was towed from the scene.Police gave her field sobriety tests before handcuffing her and placing her in the back of a Jim Thorpe police car.The man, her front-seat passenger, was placed in the back of a Lehighton police car.Franklin, Kidder, Jim Thorpe and Summit Hill police were at the scene.State police ask that anyone with information contact them at 610-377-4270.