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95-year-old woman dies in fatal wrong-way crash on Pa. Turnpike in Lehigh Valley

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A 95-year-old woman died Friday night in a two-vehicle crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension, according to a news release from the Lehigh County coroner.

Argelia Tolentino of Allentown was a passenger in a vehicle motor that hit another vehicle that was traveling the wrong way around 9:15 p.m. near mile marker 56 in South Whitehall Township, state police said.

Tolentino was pronounced dead at the site at 10:40 p.m. Friday by Deputy Coroner Gabrielle Riley. The manner of death was deemed an accident by the coroner, but the cause of death was still under investigation as of Saturday morning. The accident resulted in no other deaths.

State police at Pocono also investigated the accident.