Edward Roberts Jr. Killed In Lancaster County Crash

The coroner said on Friday, July 25, that a driver from Massachusetts was killed after swerving off a Pennsylvania road and colliding with a Lancaster County yard.

Roberts, Edward “Eddie” Jr.

Initially from Holyoke, Massachusetts, Edward Roberts Jr., 39, of Middletown, was recognized as the victim by the Lancaster County Coroner’s Office.

Officials said that around 1:11 a.m. Friday, emergency personnel were dispatched to the scene of a two-vehicle collision at 2316 Old Philadelphia Pike in East Lampeter Township. A coroner investigator discovered Roberts dead in a yard close to the location. At 1:44 in the morning, he was declared dead.

For an autopsy, Roberts’ body was taken to the Lancaster County Forensic Center. The coroner said the reason and manner of his death are still being investigated.

“It breaks my heart to share that my best friend, my chosen family, my brother Edward Roberts Jr., was tragically killed in a car accident last night,” a distraught friend named Shayne Findley posted on Facebook. According to the facts I’ve been given, he wasn’t at fault, and the incident will be thoroughly investigated.

Findley claimed he was informed that Roberts did not suffer because he died on impact. In order for everyone who loved Roberts to start processing this terrible loss, he said that he had spoken with his mother and was making the news public.