July 2, 2009
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Pa. College Grad Remembered

OCEAN CITY – Tragedy struck on Tuesday afternoon when a Pennsylvania woman and recent college graduate attempting to cross Coastal Highway on a bicycle was struck and killed by a delivery truck. Around 1:18 p.m. on Tuesday, Kristen Stormer, 23, of Hollidaysburg, Pa., attempted to cross Coastal Highway from east to west on a bicycle at the busy 33rd Street intersection and made it safely across the northbound lanes before being struck by a Canada Dry delivery truck in the southbound middle lane. Stormer, a recent graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) and reportedly in the resort area for the summer for a photography job, was pronounced dead at the scene. According to a witness who was driving south on Coastal Highway near the scene of the tragic accident, the victim was wearing an Ipod and did not look left or right before entering the intersection. The witness said he was in the center southbound lane and saw Stormer enter the intersection, causing southbound traffic to brake suddenly before the truck struck the victim. “She just came rolling through here with ... [more]
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