Elderly woman dies in McKean County crash

FATAL ACCIDENT IN MCKEAN COUNTY.  STATE POLICE TELL WVTT NEWSRADIO IT HAPPENED SHORTLY AFTER TWO O’CLOCK YESTERDAY AFTERNOON IN WETMORE TOWNSHIP, MCKEAN COUNTY, WHEN A GREEN GMC VAN DRIVEN BY 76 YEAR OLD THOMAS GINNERY OF OIL CITY CROSSED THE CENTERLINE OF ROUTE SIX JUST WEST OF LANTZ CORNERS AND HIT A FORD SUV HEAD-ON.  GINNERY’S WIFE, 80 YEAR OLD BERTHA GINNERY, WAS KILLED IN THE CRASH…WHILE THE DRIVER WAS FLOWN TO UPMC HAMOT.  TWO BACK-SEAT PASSENGERS IN THE VAN WERE FROM SALAMANCA AND WERE ALSO HURT—48 YEAR OLD TINA LYNN WAGONER WAS HURT AND AN UNIDENTIFIED 11 YEAR OLD GIRL FROM SALAMANCA WAS FLOWN TO CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL IN BUFFALO.  THE PASSENGER IN THE SUV—68 YEAR OLD MARILYN BRINKLEY OF KANE—WAS FLOWN TO UPMC HAMOT AND THE DRIVER OF THE SUV—69 YEAR OLD THOMAS BRINKLEY OF KANE—WAS TREATED AT KANE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOR MODERATE INJURIES.  TRAFFIC ON ROUTE 6 WAS BLOCKED FOR HOURS FOLLOWING THE CRASH—THAT CAUSED SCHOOL STUDENTS TRAVELLING FROM KANE TO MOUNT JEWETT TO BE DELAYED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.