A Google map of the stretch of Route 100 north of Pottstown along which the accident occurred.
Editor’s note: This story was updated Monday at 11:18 a.m. It was first published at 6:34 a.m.
POTTSTOWN PA – Officials in the Pottstown School District were preparing to offer grief and other counseling resources to their high school students this morning (Monday, Dec. 14, 2009) after news spread of a one-car automobile accident Saturday night (Dec. 12) on Route 100 between Farmington and Moyer roads in Upper Pottsgrove (PA) Township, in which two Pottstown students were killed.
Four other passengers were injured in the vehicle, according to WCAU-TV; three were said to be students of Pottsgrove High School; one was from Pottstown. The SUV in which they were riding hit a guard rail and was flipped onto its roof.
The Pottstown victims were Breanne Brothers and Andrea Antonio-Harris, according to several reports. Identifications of those injured from Pottsgrove were not available this morning, and no mention of the accident was found on the Pottsgrove School District website as of 10:47 a.m.
In latest developments (Monday as of 11:18 a.m.):
- Pottstown High Principal Stephen Rodriguez was scheduled to address the accident with his students this morning using an in-school television system;
- The Montgomery County District Attorney’s office continues to investigate the accident.
Social Media
Two Facebook group pages have been established since the accident was reported.
- R.I.P Breanne Brothers &nd Andrea Marie (665 members as of 10:47 a.m.)
- R.I.P Andrea Antonio-Harris and Breanne Brothers (269 members as of 10:47 a.m.)
Obituaries
Obituary information was not available as of this morning. When obituaries become available they often can be located online using the ObitFinder page at Legacy.com.
News Resources
In scanning available news feeds for more information regarding the accident, The Post found these stories for reader reference, listed with the most recent first:
- Crash Kills 2 Teens, Hurts 4 (WCAU-TV Channel 10, Philadelphia PA)
- DA Investigating Crash That Killed Two High School Students (WFMZ-TV, Allentown PA)
- Pottstown Girls Killed In One-Car Crash (The Mercury, Pottstown PA)
- Friends Mourn Students Killed In Pottstown Accident (WPVI-TV, Philadelphia PA)
- Montco Police Probe Crash That Killed 2 Teens (KYW-AM, Philadelphia PA)
- Two Pottstown Students Killed In Accident In Montgomery County (WFMZ-TV, Allentown PA)
- 2 Pottstown students killed in crash (The Mercury, Pottstown PA)
- 2 Teens Dead In Upper Pottsgrove Crash (KYW-TV Channel 3, Philadelphia PA)
- Crash kills two girls in Montco (The Inquirer, Philadelphia PA)
- Montgomery County (PA) emergency dispatches of Saturday make two references to the accident. See The Post log here.
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I know the one girl, Dallas Briel, who was taken to intensive care. She is in the 7th grade at Boyertown Junior High West. I am very good friends with her. I was very depressed on Monday. All day. I kind of forgot about it until i walked into study hall and she wasn’t in her seat. We would always talk for like 15 minutes there in the bathroom everyday. I went in the bathroom because maybe just maybe I heard wrong and she might be in there. But she was not. Dallas, you are in my prayers!
As a parent of teenage drivers I always worried and always cautioned them on departure from our home about driving safe and seatbelts as a must be on rule for everyone in the car.
Too many teens in a car and the attention span of the driver is distracted. Combine that with wet and frozen roadways and disaster looms.
I can but offer a prayer and condolences, a well as a recovery for the injured.
EJCox
Sanatoga