MOUNT PLEASANT - A 20-year-old Mount Pleasant woman died as a result of injuries sustained in a one-vehicle accident which occurred Saturday on Water Street in Mount Pleasant Township. State police at Greensburg said Jamie Marker, a passenger in the vehicle, was pronounced dead by Westmoreland County Deputy Coroner Gerald Fritz at approximately 7:40 p.m. According to police, the accident occurred at 6:10 p.m. when a vehicle operated by Susan Crouch, 20, of Champion, failed to negotiate a left hand curve and struck a utility pole. The accident occurred near Bridgeport Dam. Police said an investigation is continuing. According to police Crouch was not injured. However, three other passengers in the vehicle sustained moderate injuries. The passengers included Amanda Billeaudeau, 20, of Connellsville; Buddy White, 21, of Mount Pleasant and Dawn DiMartino, 22, of Mount Pleasant. According to Fritz, after the accident the car was driven about a half-mile to a gravel parking lot near the intersection of Bridgeport and Water streets, where the occupants called for help. An autopsy performed Sunday by the coroner's office showed Marker died of blunt force trauma, Fritz said. Also, an elderly woman who was hit last week by a dump truck has died. Viola Sollars, 87, believed to be from Belle Vernon, died Saturday afternoon at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh's Uptown section. Cause of death is listed as blunt force trauma to the head, according to the Allegheny County Coroner's Office. Sollars was taken to Mercy after the accident on March 6 near the intersection of East Main and Water streets in West Newton. West Newton Police said Sollars was walking across East Water Street when she was hit by a 2000 Ford F-350 truck owned by a Dawson construction company. The driver of the eastbound truck, 19-year-old Ryan Swink of Dawson, was not injured.

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