Stockertown, PA : 20-year-old dies after a car crash on Route 33 in Stockertown on Saturday night, February 13, 2016

A Monroe County man died early Sunday after being injured in a car crash Saturday night on Route 33 in Stockertown, state police at Belfast said.

Antoni J. Alvarado, 20, of Saylorsburg, died at 3:35 a.m. at St. Luke's University Hospital in Fountain Hill. Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim said Alvarado's cause of death was blunt force injuries sustained in the crash and he deemed the manner accidental.

Alvarado was a passenger in a Hyundai Elantra that rolled over into a wooded area, according to the coroner's office.

State police said the crash occurred when Daniel E. Blazier, 19, of Brodheadsville, was driving the 2014 Hyundai Elantra at 9:30 p.m. Saturday along Route 33 south at a high rate of speed, when he lost control and struck a 2005 Honda Civic driven by Crystal Vargas, 22, of Albrightsville, police said. The crash occurred near mile marker 9.5 in Stockertown.

Police said Blazier's car rear-ended the Honda. The impact caused both vehicles to travel off the right side of the highway, across the Route 33 southbound on-ramp and into a wooded area off the western shoulder of the road.

Blazier suffered serious injuries; Zachary Coleman, 18, of Brodheadsville, another passenger in the Hyundai, suffered moderate injuries; and Vargas had moderate injuries, according to state police.

All involved in the crash were wearing seat belts, state police said. Also responding were the Forks Township Fire Department, Nazareth Emergency Medical Services, Suburban Emergency Medical Services and the Troop M Forensic Services Unit.

The crash remains under investigation by the Lehigh County Coroner's Office and Pennsylvania State Police at Belfast.

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20-year-old dies after Route 33 high-speed crash, cops say