Police release names of 2 killed in Seward Highway crash

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The two people killed Monday in a head-on crash on the Seward Highway were a father and daughter, Anchorage police announced.

Paul Matson, 66, and Lea Matson, 25, died in the crash, police said.

Patrol officers with the Anchorage Police Department shortly after 10:30 a.m. Monday responded to a call of a crash at Mile 102 Seward Highway near Bird Creek.

Investigators determined that a sport utility vehicle driven north by Paul Matson slid into the southbound lane and struck a pickup.

Paul Matson died at the scene. Lea Matson was critically injured and transported to a hospital, where she died.

Two adults and a child in the pickup were transported to a hospital with what police called non-life-threatening injuries.

Winter conditions were a factor in the crash, police said.