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Two Drexel University Students Die in Upstate Car Crash

Questions remain surrounding a car crash that killed two Drexel University students and seriously injured four others while they were driving on a fraternity trip through Lycoming County in north-central Pennsylvania in January 2009.

Police said the SUV struck a "rock cut" along the mountainside around 3:30 a.m that morning.

Ian Alexander, 22, of Royersford, president of Drexel's Alpha Chi Rho fraternity, and John Patrick "Johnny" Williamson Jr., 21, of Havertown, died in the accident on Route 15, two miles south of Liberty, Pa., state police said in a written release. The SUV had been headed south.

Although Police would not say whether alcohol was a factor in the crash, or whether the two who died had been wearing seat belts, the mother of one of the boys, Donna Marie Williamson, 52, said police had assured her that alcohol was not a factor in the accident.

The four survivors, including the driver, Andrew Cardamone, 19, of Philadelphia, were all wearing seat belts, police said. Cardamone and passengers Eric Rayburn, 18, of Quakertown, and Kevin MacDonald, 18, of Philadelphia, were taken to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.

Passenger Adam Marsh, 20, of Collegeville, was airlifted to Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre.

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