Emergency rescue crews remove a victim of a tour bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013 near Carlisle, Pa. Authorities say the tour bus crashed on the freeway at mile marker 227 in central Pennsylvania, and serious injuries have been reported. Lacrosse players from Seton Hill University and three coaches were among the 23 people aboard when the bus crashed at about 9 a.m., turnpike spokeswoman Renee Colborn said. It's not clear what caused the crash, but state police were investigating, said Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County public safety department. (AP Photo/The Sentinel, Jason Malmont )
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Police are investigating what caused a bus carrying a college women's lacrosse team to veer off a Pennsylvania highway and crash into a tree, killing a pregnant coach, her unborn child and the driver.
Seton Hill University team players and coaches were among 23 people aboard when the bus crashed Saturday morning. The team was headed to an afternoon game at Millersville University, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the crash site in central Pennsylvania.
Head coach Kristina Quigley, 30, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, died of her injuries at a hospital, Cumberland County authorities said. Quigley was about six months pregnant and her unborn son didn't survive. The bus driver, Anthony Guaetta, 61, of Johnstown, died at the scene.
Two victims flown to Penn State Hershey Medical Center remained there Sunday, but no information was released about their identities or conditions. A woman was in satisfactory condition at Holy Spirit Hospital in Carlisle in Camp Hill and was expected to be discharged later Sunday. All others aboard the bus were taken to hospitals as a precaution, but almost all were treated and released.
The front side of the bus, which was towed from the scene Saturday night, was shorn away, and the vehicle was left resting upright about 70 yards (65 meters) from the road at the bottom of a grassy slope.
Police couldn't immediately say what had caused the crash.
Both Saturday's game and a Sunday home game were canceled after the crash, and Seton Hill, a Catholic liberal arts school of about 2,500 students near Pittsburgh, said a memorial Mass was planned for Sunday night on campus. The school is also offering grief counseling to students.
Duquesne University women's lacrosse coach Mike Scerbo remembered Quigley as a warm, outgoing person who immediately impressed him when he hired her to be an assistant during the 2008 season.
Quigley, a Duquesne alum, spent just one season under Scerbo before moving to South Carolina to coach Erskine College's lacrosse team.
She spent three years at Erskine before taking the top job at Seton Hill for the 2012 season.
Quigley, a native of Baltimore, was married and had a young son, the school said.
The bus operator, Mlaker Charter & Tours, of Davidsville, Pennsylvania, is up-to-date on its inspections, which include bus and driver safety checks, said Jennifer Kocher, a spokeswoman for the state Public Utility Commission, which regulates bus companies.
The agency's motor safety inspectors could think of no accidents or violations involving the company that would raise a red flag, she said, though complete safety records were not available Saturday.
On Tuesday, another bus carrying college lacrosse players from a Vermont team was hit by a sports car that spun out of control on a wet highway in upstate New York, sending the bus toppling onto its side, police said. One person in the car died.
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