2 killed in Butler County crash

BUTLER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Two people were killed in a two-vehicle crash in Butler County on Tuesday morning.

Investigators told Channel 11 that Thomas Shaffer, 85, of Ellwood City, drove his van eastbound through a stop sign at Greenwood Drive and South Benbrook Road in Butler Township and hit a pickup truck.

Investigators said both vehicles went through the guard rail, over a hillside and into a creek.

The driver of the pickup, Glenn Davis Jr., 66, of Harrisville was thrown from his truck and pinned underneath it.

A resident in the area found a dog believed to be in one of those vehicles at the time of the crash.

It had a cut on its nose and was taken to the Humane Society to be checked out.

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