A 56-year-old Altoona woman, Kathryn Ann Blackburn, was killed in a two-vehicle accident on State Route 220, three miles north of State Route 350 in Snyder Township, yesterday at 5:45 a.m.
\nPolice said 42-year-old Jeffrey Allen Rhian of Cogan Station, PA was southbound on the road while Blackburn was driving northbound.
\nState police said they believe Rhian may have suffered a seizure or fell asleep and his van crossed into the northbound lane and hit Blackburn\u2019s car head-on. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
\nPolice said Rhian was found to be suffering from a seizure after the accident. He was treated for a minor injury and a complaint of pain. Rhian was not wearing a seat belt. Police said Blackburn was wearing her seat belt.
\nBoth vehicles had severe front-end damage. Traffic was stopped for several hours due to the accident.
\nBald Eagle Fire Company assisted at the scene and re-routed traffic. Police said their investigation was continuing as of their release yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 56-year-old Altoona woman, Kathryn Ann Blackburn, was killed in a two-vehicle accident on State Route 220, three miles north of State Route 350 in Snyder Township, yesterday at 5:45 a.m. Police said 42-year-old Jeffrey Allen Rhian of Cogan Station, PA was southbound on the road while Blackburn was driving northbound. State police said they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}