Two people were reportedly killed in separate crashes that occurred hours apart along Interstate 180 in Montour County on Friday morning.

State police were dispatched to Interstate 80 West in Liberty Township, around 2:40 a.m. Friday for a multi-vehicle crash, according to a state police press release.

The pile-up began when a tractor trailer encountered black ice and slid into the left hand lane, where a box truck driven by 48-year-old Efrain Martinez-Vargas, of the Moosic area, struck it from the rear, according to state police.

Martinez-Vargas was delivering doughnuts to various shops when their vehicle became engulfed in flames as a result of the accident, the Montour County coroner said in a post on Facebook.

The chain reaction caused a pile-up of 16 vehicles, the state police press release said.

A snow squall was reportedly in the area at the time of the incident.

Two serious injuries were also reported as a result of the crash.

Just over seven hours later, police were called to the scene of another traffic accident up the road from the earlier one in Valley Township, state police said in a press release.

The two-vehicle crash, which occurred at 9:45 a.m. claimed the life of Courtney Hurry, 22, of Lewisburg.

Hurry was operating her 2007 Chevrolet Sedan when she was caught in the congestion caused by the earlier accident, struck the rear of a flatbed tractor trailer, suffered multiple blunt force injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the coroner and state police reports.

The reason for the impact was unknown as of press time.

The driver of the flatbed was uninjured, state police said.

Detours were set up following the respective crashes. Normal traffic resumed as of 4:15 p.m. Friday afternoon.