Two Dead, One Injured After Another Fatal Crash in Walker Township

Updated at 9 p.m. on April 28, 2022.

Two people are dead and another was taken to the hospital with serious injuries after a head-on crash Wednesday afternoon in Walker Township.

It was the third fatal crash in eight days on a 5-mile stretch of Route 64/Nittany Valley Drive in the township.

Samuel Keller, 71, of Petersburg, was driving a Chevrolet Malibu south on Route 64 near Hublersburg Road at about 3 p.m. when he drifted into the northbound lane and struck another car head on, police wrote in a crash report.

Keller and 29-year-old Brandy Butler, of Jersey Shore, who was a passenger in the other vehicle, sustained fatal injuries and were pronounced dead at the scene.

Both died of blunt force trauma, Centre County Coroner Scott Sayers reported on Thursday.

The other driver, a 24-year-old Lock Haven woman, was taken to UPMC Altoona to be treated for serious injuries.

Walker Township, Howard and Pleasant Gap fire companies, Bellefonte and Pleasant Gap EMS and Tressler’s Towing also responded to the scene.

A 28-year-old Mingoville woman died after a collision with a UTV on April 19 on Route 64 near Marie Lane and a 47-year-old Bellefonte woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash about 5 miles away, near Snydertown Road, on April 22.

According to state police crash reports, all four people killed in the three crashes were not wearing or were “improperly” wearing seat belts.