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Update-Names released in fatal Franklin Township crash

The Carbon County Coroner's office released the names of two individuals killed in an early morning crash Sunday in Franklin Township.

Christopher Mattera, 23, and Brian McGovern, 25, both of Wilmington, Delaware, were pronounced dead at the scene by Carbon County deputy coroner Robert Miller.Autopsies on both are scheduled for Tuesday.Police said at 2 a.m. a Jeep Cherokee was going east on Forest Street, just past the entrance of the former Kriss Pines Trout Hatchery.The driver allegedly failed to negotiate a slight curve in the roadway entering the right berm where it impacted with several large boulders and several trees before coming to rest on its roof back on the roadway.A third person was transported to the hospital with critical injuries.