86-Year-Old Woman Killed in Newtown Crash

An 86-year-old Southbury woman is dead after a head-on crash in Newtown on Tuesday morning. 

Police said a GMC Terrain SUV and a Buick LeSabre collided in the area of Mount Pleasant Road and Taunton Lane just after 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. 

Both drivers, as well as Delores Hake, the passenger in the GMC Terrain, were taken to Danbury Hospital. 

Hake, 86, of Southbury, later died from injuries sustained in the crash, police said. 

Police are investigating and said it appears that the driver of the Buick LeSabre crossed the center line and hit the vehicle Hake was traveling in.

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