Kelly Pol, 22; Attended Gannon University (Was Friend Of My Daughter)
Bill Schenley
kids. Two kids who were there so often, they never had to knock when they
came in. They both went to school with my daughter from second grade
through high school.
Kelly was a student at Gannon University and had been working a part-time
job. She had depended on the driver of the automobile for a ride hom from
work.
On the day Kelly died, her sister Katie had a baby girl.
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Woman dies from injuries suffered in Millcreek crash
FROM: The Erie Times-News ~
By Kara Rhodes
Kelly Pol, the 22-year-old injured in a Millcreek
Township car crash Thursday night, has died.
Pol was a passenger in a car driven by Alicia
Pugh, 23. Police said Pugh's blood-alcohol
content was 0.17 percent at the scene, more than
twice the legal limit for driving.
Police have charged Pugh with accidents involving
death or personal injury, driving under the
influence, aggravated assault by vehicle while under
the influence, reckless endangerment, driving
without a valid license, and other traffic-related
charges. She is in the Erie County Prison.
Pol had been in critical condition since the crash.
Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook said she died at
5 p.m. Friday. He said she had a broken neck,
among other injuries.
The official cause of death will be multiple blunt-force
trauma, Cook said. He said no autopsy is planned.
The crash happened in the 4200 block of West
Ridge Road at 11:23 p.m. Thursday. The silver
Buick the women were traveling in struck a utility
pole on the north berm of the road.
Pugh, of the 1100 block of West 26th Street, told an
officer that "her vehicle was experiencing mechanical
problems and she lost control and struck the pole,"
the criminal complaint against her said.
Witnesses told police they saw the silver Buick driving
at high speed west along West Ridge Road just before
the accident.
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Kelly Ann Pol, Beloved Daughter, Sister, Aunt and Granddaughter
FROM: The Erie Times-News ~
Kelly Ann Pol, age 22, of Erie passed away on Friday,
January 19, 2008 at Hamot Medical Center as the result
of an automobile accident.
She was born in Erie on February 8, 1985 a daughter
of John E. and Jane West Pol.
Kelly was a 2003 graduate of Collegiate Academy and
attended Gannon University. She worked at West
Marketing and currently was employed at Chick- Fil-A.
Kelly played softball at Central High School. She loved
family gatherings especially Sunday picnics at the
cottage.
She was preceded in death by her paternal grandparents,
Charles and Elizabeth Pol and her aunt and uncle Cindy
and Tim Hohner. She is survived by her parents, four
sisters: Cassandra Roward, husband Daniel, her twin
sister, Katy Pol, Mandy Pol and Kimberly Pol all of Erie;
four nieces: Savannah, Hailey, Danica and Abrianna
Kellyann; her maternal grandparents, Dorothy and Ronald
West and many close aunts, uncles and cousins.
Friends are invited to call on Monday from 2 to 5 and 7
to 9 p.m. at the A. Brugger & Sons Funeral Home, 845
East 38th at Pine Avenue. Services will be held on
Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Holy Rosary Church, 2701 East
Avenue. Burial will follow in Mary Queen of Peace
Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers memorial may be made to the Pol
Family in care of A. Brugger & Sons Funeral Home,
845 East 38th Street, Erie, PA 16504.
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Original Times-News story:
Driver charged with DUI in Millcreek accident
FROM: The Erie Times-News (January 19th) ~
Alicia M. Pugh tried to shake her passenger awake.
Kelly Pol didn't respond.
Pugh gave up, and told witnesses that she had to go.
She told them she had to go to the Cab tavern to
meet her boyfriend.
But witnesses kept Pugh at the scene of the Thursday
night car crash in the 4200 block of West Lake Road
until police and ambulances arrived to help the
critically injured 22-year-old Pol.
Millcreek Township Police included statements from
witnesses about Pugh's behavior after the crash in a
criminal complaint filed in the case.
That same complaint said Pugh's blood alcohol
content at the scene measured 0.17 percent, more
than double the state limit of 0.8 percent.
Police have charged Pugh with accidents involving
death or personal injury, driving under the influence,
aggravated assault by vehicle while under the
influence, reckless endangerment, driving without
a valid license, and other traffic-related charges.
Thursday's accident happened at 11:23 p.m. in the
4200 block of West Ridge Road. The first officer
on the scene reported seeing a silver Buick facing
north in the west lane of the road. The criminal
complaint said the vehicle's passenger side had struck
the telephone pole on the north berm of the road.
Pugh, who lives in the 1100 block of West 26th Street,
told the officer that "her vehicle was experiencing
mechanical problems and she lost control and struck
the pole," the complaint said.
The officer said he smelled alcohol on Pugh and
gave her two field sobriety tests, which she failed.
Witnesses also told him that they saw the silver Buick
driving at a high rate of speed west along West Ridge
Road just before the accident, according to the report.
Pol remained in critical condition at Hamot Medical
Center Friday night.
As word of the accident spread, Pol's friends urged
her to get better on her www.myspace.com page Friday.
"Kels, get better there are too many people who need
you," one friend wrote.
Pol referenced a quote at the top of her page on the
social networking Web site.
"Live life like there is no tomorrow because you never
know if there will be a tomorrow," she wrote.
Kathi
My deepest sympathy to your family and Kelly's. There are many cliches
which fit this situation: "cut down in the prime of life", "had so
much to live for", etc. But none of them ever sound sincere, no
matter how sincerely they are intended. I noticed that her twin
sister gave the baby Kelly's name for her middle name; that was a
sweet gesture.
Kathi
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