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State police at Fern Ridge - crashes

State police at the Fern Ridge barracks reported the following crashes:

• Jessica Guarisco, 37, and Johnsel Vargas, 23, both from Freeland, were uninjured in a crash at 5:33 a.m. May 31 on Interstate 80 in Kidder Township.

Police said Guarisco was driving a 2023 Subaru Forester, with Vargas as her passenger, when the car struck a deer head-on in the right westbound lane.

• Gage A. Hunsicker, 24, of Albrightsville, was uninjured in a one-vehicle crash at 3:19 a.m. June 21 on the Jonas Road, Chestnuthill Township.

Police said he was driving a 2012 Ford Taurus too fast conditions eastbound when he failed to make a complete stop at a four-way intersection. The car lost traction on rocks that were in the roadway, swerved to the right and overturned, coming to rest on the right shoulder of the road.

The vehicle was towed from the scene.

• Oginga Chapman, 52, of Long Pond, and two passengers in a car he was driving, children aged 1 and 3, were uninjured in a crash at 6:16 p.m. June 22 on Route 115 in Chestnuthill Township.

Police said he was driving a 2014 Chrysler Town and Country minivan that was struck by an unknown vehicle whose driver was northbound when he/she attempted to make a U-turn to head south. Police said the unknown vehicle was pulled over by the driver but then left the scene.

Police said the Town and Country had minor damages.

• Police investigated a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Route 209 and a private parking lot. They did not provide the date or the incident, nor the drivers.

They said a vehicle attempting to enter Route 209 from the lot to travel westbound failed to yield the right of way to an eastbound vehicle, resulting in the collision.

Police said both vehicles came to a controlled stop in a nearby parking lot.