Two women died from injuries sustained in a multivehicle crash after the driver of one of the vehicles veered into the path of other vehicles near Milton on Saturday, according to Delaware State Police.
At about 8:46 a.m. Mary Elicone, 59, of Rehoboth Beach, was driving a white 2019 BMW 540i south on Coastal Highway south of Cave Neck Road, police investigators said. For unknown reasons, the car drove off the right side of the road and into a drainage ditch, police said. It continued traveling in the ditch until it hit a stop sign outside the driveway of the Red Mill Inn.
The vehicle then changed direction and veered left reentering Coastal Highway, police said. The BMW crossed the highway’s grass median and entered the northbound lanes of Coastal Highway, they said, where it collided head-on with both a gray 2017 Chevrolet Equinox and a red 2020 Jeep Renegade.
Police said the driver of the Equinox, 65-year-old Suzanne Misener from Lewes, was critically injured. She was taken to an area hospital by ambulance and was pronounced dead a short time later.
Elicone also was critically injured and taken to an area hospital. She, too, was pronounced dead a short time later.
The driver of the Jeep, a 52-year-old woman from Milton was taken by ambulance to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
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The collision closed northbound Coastal Highway for almost four hours and restricted southbound lanes for almost four hours.
This incident remains under investigation by Delaware State Police Troop 7 Collision Reconstruction Unit. Witnesses are being asked to call Master Cpl. K. Argo at 302-703-3264.
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