NAZARETH HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR WAS KILLED SATURDAY

NAZARETH HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR KILLED SATURDAY.

A Article from the Express Times:

Nazareth Area High School senior Angelica Fox dies in Heidelberg Township accident

By Tom Quigley

September 27, 2009, 12:44PM

Angelica Elizabeth Fox, 17, a Nazareth Area High School senior, was killed Saturday in a Lehigh County wreck.Seventeen-year-old Nazareth resident Angelica Elizabeth Fox is one of two teens killed in a Saturday afternoon accident in Heidelberg Township, the Lehigh County Coroner's Office reports.

Also killed in the 1:34 p.m. three-vehicle crash on Mountain Road was Russell Jacoby, 17, of the 700 block of Lehigh Gap Road, Slatedale, Pa.

The two were in a 2000 Dodge Neon with a 17-year-old Walnutport boy and a 16-year-old Slatington girl who were both seriously injured in the crash. The boy was flown to Lehigh Valley Hospital in Salisbury Township and the girl was flown to St. Luke's Hospital in Fountain Hill, police said.

The identities of the two injured teens were withheld by police and information about their conditions could not be obtained.

The crash occurred after the eastbound Dodge Neon passed a 1966 Chrysler Imperial at the crest of a hill and the driver lost control of the Neon after pulling back into the eastbound lane, police said.

A westbound 2006 Sierra pickup truck then struck the Neon, splitting it in half, police said. All four occupants of the Neon were ejected, police said.

The two occupants of the Imperial, Rob Frisch, 51, and Rebecca McMichael, 30, both of Lehighton, were not injured, police said.

The occupants of the pickup truck, Scott and Deborah Pace, both 51 and residents of Walnutport, suffered serious injuries, police said. The two were transported to Lehigh Valley Hospital..

Information about their conditions was not immediately available.

Police did not say who was driving the Neon or the two other vehicles.

Fox, a senior at Nazareth Area High School, and Jacoby were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash west of Bake Oven Road.

Autopsies are scheduled to take place Tuesday.

Fox, of the 300 block of West Walnut Street, worked part time as a carhop at the Sonic on Routes 248 and 33 in Lower Nazareth Township, according to a restaurant manager. She's worked at the Sonic since its grand opening in October 2008.

Sonic Manager Chris Diven described Fox as a hard worker who always chipped in to help when he needed someone to fill a shift.

“She’s been with us since the day we opened,” he said. “She was one of the first ones to say she could fill in.”

Diven said other employees at the Sonic are upset.

“She was just a sweet girl who always had a smile on her face,” Diven said. “It’s just really sad to see this happen to somebody so young and with such a good future.”

Diven said he could not express how he felt on learning of Fox’s death.

Nazareth Area School District Board of Education member Tom Maher said the school is staffed with counselors and others who will be available to help students affected by Fox’s death.

Maher said those services will likely begin when students return to school Tuesday.