A Palmerton Area High School graduate and her husband were killed in a four-vehicle crash on Jan. 31 in upper Bucks County.

State police at the Dublin barracks did not release the identities of the victims, but obituaries will appear in Saturday’s paper. Christie Bisschop, 47, who graduated in 1995 from PAHS, and her husband, Aaron D. Bisschop, 54, died tragically in the crash.

Born in Palmerton, Christie was a daughter of Kay Frey (David) and Richard Kost. She and Aaron, a native of Illinois, were married on April 6, 2016.

A police report posted by the Dublin barracks said the tragedy happened at 8:35 p.m. Jan. 31 on Route 663 in Milford Township.

Police said Tori L. Gutshall, 29, of Quakertown, was driving a 2003 Ford Explorer northbound, just north of the intersection with Brinkman Road, when it entered the opposite lane and struck a 2020 Ford Escape going southbound head-on driven by a woman and also occupied by a man.

Police said the impact caused the Escape to travel off the roadway into the woods, where it burst into flames. The occupants were pronounced dead at the scene.

Two other vehicles were involved in the crash. Police said a 2019 Volkswagen Atlas operated by Svetlana Shakh, 37, of Quakertown, attempted to avoid the first collision but was struck by the Explorer. The Atlas was struck on its driver’s side by a 2021 Ford Transit driven by Kevary C. Hopwood, 30, of Somerset, New Jersey.

Police said Gutshall was transported by personnel from the Macungie Ambulance Corps to the Lehigh Valley Hospital, Cedar Crest, Salisbury Township.

They said Shakh and an 11-year-old girl from Quakertown were transported by personnel from the St. Luke’s Emergency and Transport Service to the St. Luke’s Hospital, Quakertown.

Hopwood and a passenger in the Transit, Vivian O. Montique, 33, of Reading, were uninjured in the incident.