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2 dead, 2 critical after SUV strikes power pole near Juneau

JUNEAU - Two people died and two were seriously injured in a crash north of Juneau.

Juneau police say a woman and a man were found dead Thursday morning outside a sport utility vehicle that struck a power pole.

Two men inside the SUV were transported to Bartlett Regional Hospital and later evacuated out of Juneau.

Dispatchers shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday took a call from a woman who reported the crash on Glacier Highway near Cohen Drive north of the Mendenhall Valley.

The witness found a woman outside the vehicle who has not breathing and attempted CPR. Other passers-by found an unconscious man outside of the vehicle and two men inside, including one slumped over a deployed air bag.

Emergency responders pronounced the man and woman outside the vehicle dead.

This story has been updated to reflect further details from police, specifically that one woman and one man are dead, not two women.

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