{"id":260702,"date":"2026-08-07T00:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260702\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T00:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:50:07","slug":"2-teens-killed-12-year-old-girl-seriously-injured-after-utv-crashes-into-tree-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260702\/","title":{"rendered":"2 teens killed, 12-year-old girl seriously injured after UTV crashes into tree in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old and a 13-year-old were killed and a 12-year-old was seriously injured in a UTV crash in Susquehanna County on Wednesday, Pennsylvania State Police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taryn Briggs, 18, of New Milford and a 13-year-old from Springville were killed in the single-vehicle UTV crash, which happened around 3 p.m. on Wednesday in New Milford Township on Butterfield Road, just north of East Shore Drive, according to a state police release report. Neither the 13-year-old nor the 12-year-old, who is also from Springville, was identified by law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Briggs was behind the wheel of a 2025 Can-Am Defender that was headed north on Butterfield Road when it crossed into the southbound lane and onto the gravel berm before striking a tree. Briggs and the 13-year-old were ejected from the UTV. The 13-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene, while Briggs was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 12-year-old was taken to a local hospital. State police did not release her exact injuries or provide an update on her condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New Milford fire and EMS, Barnes Kasson EMS    and the Susquehanna County Coroner&#8217;s Office responded to the scene of the deadly crash, along with state police.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old and a 13-year-old were killed and a 12-year-old was seriously injured in a UTV crash in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6977,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-260702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-fatal-crash","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}