A 32-year-old woman from Trumbauersville, Bucks County, was killed in a motor vehicle accident on Tollgate Road in Richland Township Monday morning.
Bucks County coroner Meredith Buck idenfified the accident victim as Megan Rose Allen.
In a news release issued Monday afternoon, Buck said Allen’s cause and manner of death remain under investigation.
An autopsy by the coroner’s office is scheduled to be conducted Tuesday, she added.
Channel 69 News reported that the accident happened in the 500 block of Tollgate Road between Maple Lawn Lane and Richland Terrace, which is west of Rt. 309, south of Quakertown.
The news site published a photo of the crash scene in which a crumpled car and a box truck with front end damage can be seen along a curve in the roadway.
“The decedent’s next of kin has been notified and on behalf of the Bucks County Coroner’s Office, Coroner Buck offers her family and friends sincerest condolences,” the coroner’s news release said.
I see Bucks county coroner Meredith Buck strikes again with another arbitrary, utterly pointless and unnecessary autopsy. In many if not most other jurisdictions in PA – especially jurisdictions where the coroner is a reasonable person – a deceased at-fault driver would generally not be subjected to an autopsy. Does Ms. Buck suspect foul play? If not, then why not let the victim rest in peace and avoid wasting several thousand dollars of property taxpayers’ money? The autopsy in this case seems just some kind of ghoulish pedantry. To put it another way, if this crash victim’s death requires an autopsy, then why doesn’t every single death in the county require one?