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Police identify fatal crash victims

Police have released the identities of two people who died in a fatal crash on Interstate 79 on Friday morning.

The crash, which happened at mile marker 87 heading north, claimed the lives of Russell Reed, 63, and Amy Horn, 47, both of Johnstown, Cambria County.

Police said neither was wearing a seat belt and both were ejected from their Ford SUV when it spun out and rolled over multiple times around 9:30 a.m. The vehicle was traveling northbound and had just gone under the overpass for Little Creek Road when it lost control, police said at the scene.

Both individuals were taken by ambulance to UPMC Passavant Cranberry. No other vehicles were involved. Police said they still had to determine who was driving the vehicle and a cause for the wreck.

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