The bystanders injured in a Duke Center car crash that claimed a Bradford woman’s life have been released from the hospital, McKean County District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer said Friday.

The district attorney said the investigation into the fatal crash in Duke Center is continuing, and “the cause of the crash will not be ruled on until the investigation by the Pennsylvania state police accident reconstructionist is complete.”

The crash occurred on Main Street in Duke Center on Sept. 8, when a car driven by Daniel Oaks of Bradford left the roadway, killing passenger Alyssa Hawk, 29, of Bradford, and injuring three bystanders.  

According to social media, Oaks remains in a coma.

Preliminary findings have indicated that a car driven by Oaks in which Hawk was a passenger was traveling on Main Street in Duke Center at approximately 9:32 p.m., when the car left the roadway as it headed out of town. The car struck a full-size pickup truck parked in front of a residence.

The force of the impact caused the truck to strike the porch and a parked side-by-side all-terrain vehicle, which then collided with a second side-by-side that was occupied, which was also parked near the residence. The car came to rest in the yard, Shaffer said.

She said there were people outside of the residence at the time of the crash and three men in the vicinity of the porch suffered injuries. The occupant of the side-by-side was uninjured. Oaks and the three others who suffered injuries were taken to UPMC Hamot in Erie and Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, N.Y., by Mercy Flight, Star Flight and Stat MedEvac, respectively.

Hawk died at the scene.

Both the car and truck were towed from the scene. Early on in the investigation police said speed may have been a factor in the crash.