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Pocono Man Killed in Crash

Pocono Man Killed in Crash - Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 5:00PM EST

Reported by: Laurie Monteforte
Tuesday, Jan 15, 2008 @05:00pm EST
COOLBAUGH TOWNSHIP - Roads in the Poconos seem to have become more dangerous lately. In early December a driver killed a teen walking to the bus stop. Less than two weeks later someone else hit and killed a young boy on his bicycle. Monday night a drive killed a man walking along the road.

Traffic always rushes along route 611 in Coolbaugh Township. There's no sidewalk and not much of a shoulder, especially with snow piled along the road. So it's an extremely dangerous place to walk.

Sgt. Jeff Bowman of the Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department said, "We're in a remote location. We don't have a lot of street lighting so that is two strikes against you right off the bat."

Combine that with an empty gas tank on a snowy night and you have the recipe for disaster. Ivern Brokennose died along 611 Monday night.

Brokennose ran out of gas along the road. He called his wife and as she came to refill his tank she saw the flashing lights, Brokennose's stepdaughter Antoinette Dodson explained, "She turned around and got out the car and asked the people - she was looking for her husband and they said he had been hit by a car."

Dodson told us her mother Judith is so upset she can't even speak. "She just dazes. She looks up and she just dazes. She's in a daze," she said.

Judith married Ivern about eight months ago. Dodson said ivern was the only person who ever made her mother truly happy. She explained, "They were constantly lovey dovey - you know. She didn't come out of the room. They stayed in the room all the time, watched TV, cuddled."

Ivern loved his wife and his heritage. He was a Native American who liked to teach children. He taught scouts at Camp Minsi last summer. Now the scouts will miss all of his knowledge and his wife will miss the man she says made her life worth living.

"I'm very worried about her, said Dodson, "She loved him very much."

The driver who hit Brokennoe is Dean Flowers from Tobyhanna. Police say they have to finish their investigation before they decide whether or not to file charges against him.