Court records show that a Butler Township man who may have intentionally crashed his car into another vehicle, killing himself and the other driver, had repeatedly threatened to kill himself.

An ex-girlfriend, following a third attempted suicide by Michael H. Reid, last month apparently moved to have him placed in a mental health facility.

Along with suicidal tendencies, the 38-year-old Reid had a violent streak.

When he died, three different women — two former girlfriends and an ex-wife — all had protective orders against him, according to Butler County court records.

“Everyone he knows, fears him,” one of those women recently claimed in court papers.

State police believe Reid was drunk and speeding west in a Dodge Neon in the eastbound lane of Route 68 near Buhl Road in Forward Township about 11:15 p.m. Wednesday when he collided with a Jeep Cherokee.

Hannah D. Swigart, 36, of Butler, who was headed home from work in the Jeep, traveling in the eastbound lane, died instantly. So did Reid.

Swigart was the mother of three young children — the oldest 11 and the youngest just 19 months. Reid also is survived by a 14-year-old daughter.

“We’re looking at whether this was an intentional act, or if it was a DUI fatality,” said state police Lt. Eric Hermick.

Autopsies were performed on both Swigart and Reid. Both died of massive injuries, head and body. The manner of death for each is pending.

Police are anxious to review Reid’s toxicology report, which could take several weeks.

When crash scene investigators got to his body, there was “a very strong, pungent odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from his person,” Hermick said.

Authorities suspect Reid was “highly intoxicated” when he drove to an ex-girlfriend’s house on Westview Drive in Butler Township earlier Wednesday night.

There, he possibly tried to break in and threw rocks or bricks at her house and a vehicle parked in front.

Reid and the woman, 38-year-old Carrie C. Black, briefly lived together at the house, neighbors said. They broke up in April and Black in May obtained a protection from abuse order against him.

At 11:08 p.m. Wednesday, she called 911 to report Reid was at her home, violating the PFA. When police arrived, he was gone, said Butler Township Police Chief John Hays.

Reid, however, called Black at her home on his cell phone. She handed her phone to a police officer.

Hays said Reid told the officer he didn’t want to talk to police.

Instead, he made a chilling comment. “He said, “You won’t see me. I’ll be dead by the morning. You’ll read about me in the paper tomorrow,’” Hermick said.

Only minutes later, Reid crashed his car into Swigart’s Jeep.

“It was very violent,” Chief Mark Adomaitis of the Evans City Volunteer Fire Department said of the collision.

Both vehicles were mangled, left in crumpled heaps.

Based on that “crush factor,” Hermick said, and other crash scene indicators, investigators know Reid’s car was traveling at “very, very excessive” speed.

“Probably between 90 and 100 mph,” Hermick said. The speed limit where the crash happened is 45 mph, Adomaitis said.

Police don’t know if Reid lost control of his car because he was drunk, or if he deliberately caused the wreck in a kind of vehicular murder-suicide.

“We may never know,” Hermick admitted.

But the suspicion that the double fatality could have been intentional was based in part, on the evidence.

There was no sign Reid slowed down, tried to brake or attempted to steer away from the collision.

Swigart, on the other hand, did everything she could, police said.

“She braked, swerved and counter steered,” Hermick said. “She saw it coming but the speed of the car was too much for her to overcome.”

Reid’s past behavior further fueled the theory that Wednesday’s crash was no accident.

According to Black’s application for her PFA, which was granted on May 20 and wasn’t to expire until May 2017, she recounted repeated threats made by Reid to her and a male friend of hers.

Black on May 8 notified township police, who called Reid and warned him to stop his threats.

But two days later, he sent Black’s same friend another text, which said, “It’s only the beginning. She has pushed me way too far.”

She wrote of Reid’s “anger issues” and his mixing alcohol with medication.

“I was dealing with him threatening suicide,” she wrote. “These threats included punching my windshield, jumping out of my car and planting himself on railroad tracks (refusing to move).”

Additionally, Black wrote, “After a (3rd) intended suicide attempt, I had him 302’d.”

The term “302’d” means the involuntary commitment of a mentally ill person.

Another former girlfriend, 45-year-old Linda J. Homa of Butler Township, obtained a PFA against Reid on March 7, 2013.

In her application for the order, she said the two were in the process of separating.

She told him she wanted him out of their house in the 300 block of South Duffy Road.

“That made him very angry,” she wrote, “and he punched the garage door, raised his hand at me and said I was pushing him to this limit.”

She described Reid as “a very violent person.” Evidence of that, she said, were holes that he punched in the walls and doors, and furniture he left broken.

Homa, when she applied for the PFA, noted that Reid’s ex-wife had a PFA against him.

“Everyone he knows, fears him,” Homa wrote. Her PFA was to remain in effect until March 14, 2016.

Butler Township police arrested Reid after he allegedly violated Homa’s PFA on April 23, 2013.

He was placed in the Butler County Prison but quickly released after posting $3,000 bail.

He later was convicted on a charge of indirect criminal contempt, for the PFA violation, and sentenced May 23, 2013, to six months in the county jail.

However, he was paroled immediately on the condition there would be no further violations. Additionally, he was placed on probation.

Along with the PFAs held by the two former girlfriends, Reid’s ex-wife, who lives in Center Township, also had a protective order against him, court records showed.

A Georgia native, he married Carrie L. Reid in Butler County on Aug. 4, 1998. She filed for divorce in May 2000. The divorce decree was granted Sept. 21, 2001.

He had primary custody of the couple’s daughter, who was born in 1999, records showed.

Despite the divorce, Carrie Reid got her PFA on June 19, 2012. It was to expire June 19, 2015.

Reid’s criminal record, meanwhile, showed two prior convictions for drunken driving and other convictions for receiving stolen property, theft by deception and bad checks, all dating back to the mid- to late-1990s.