UPDATE: Victims Identified in Deadly Northampton Car Crash

Three people were killed in a car accident on Macada Road in Hanover Township Tuesday morning.

The victims have been identified as Tyler Schaffer, 21, and John Hagen III, 21, and Robert Marich, 22, The Morning Call reported. Schaffer lived in the 1500 block of Greenview Drive in Bethlehem; Hagen lived in the 1300 block of Oakwood Drive in Hanover Township, Northampton County; and Marich lived in Coopersburg, the newspaper said.

According to Northampton County Coroner Zachary Lysek, all three victims died from multiple blunt force trauma. Their deaths have been ruled accidental.

The accident involved only one vehicle and authorities found the vehicle after responding to a report of a disabled vehicle around 7:30 a.m. on Macada Road, between Schoenersville Road and Whitewood Road, according to The Morning Call. Lysek couldn’t say when the accident occurred.

Colonial Regional Police Chief Roy Seiple said the vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed when it hit a curb, became airborne and struck a tree, The Morning Call reported. Seiple said it did not appear as though any of the men were wearing seatbelts.

Crews were initially responding to a report of a vehicle in a tree with partial ejection, The Morning Call said.

Anyone with information regarding the accident are urged to call the Colonial Regional Police Department at 610-861-4820.