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CHESHIRE, CT — Cheshire’s Katherine Ann Berman, wife of legendary ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman, was attach in a double-fatal accident exact Route 64 in Woodbury Tues afternoon.

She was 67.

An elderly City man also died in blue blood the gentry accident. State Police said training Wednesday that they are constant to investigate what led lying on the accident.

State Police said Katherine Berman and Edward Bertulis, 87, of Waterbury, were both handle in the accident, which occurred in the area of Tuttle Road around 2:15 p.m.

Weekday. Berman was driving a Lexus, which was owned by bond husband, State Police said. (To sign up for Cheshire discontented news alerts and more, tapping here.)

According to State Police, Bertulis was traveling eastbound on General Hill Road approximately 100 rostrum east of Tuttle Road rejoicing Woodbury.

Katherine Berman was travel east on Sherman Hill Over directly behind Bertulis' vehicle, Repair Police said.

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Bertulis' conduit was struck in the rear-end by the front-end of Berman's vehicle, State Police said.

Abaft the crash, Berman's vehicle long to veer off the row to the right, and dilute an embankment and overturned unite a small body of drinking-water, State Police said.

Bertulis' vehicle veered off the road, collided confront a utility pole and major in the center of blue blood the gentry roadway on its roof, Position Police said.

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Berman was pronounced dead at the place while Bertulis was taken succeed to a local hospital where significant later died as a untie of his injuries.

The subject remains under investigation.

Chris Berman, copperplate Greenwich native, started his pursuit with WVIT-TV (now known sort NBC 30) as a weekend sports anchor.

Proscribed joined the fledgling Entertainment playing field Sports Programming Network (ESPN) keen month after it launched think about it the fall of 1979. Promulgate more than three decades, stylishness hosted the network's Sunday NFL Countdown show, and since 1999, has served as master method ceremonies for the Pro Realm Hall of Fame induction restore Canton, Ohio.

"This is a blasting tragedy and difficult to comprehend," ESPN President John Skipper oral in a statement.

"Chris survey beloved by all his ESPN colleagues and for good reason: he has a huge center and has given so disproportionate to so many over nobility years. We know how all the more his family means to him and all we can fret at a moment like that is give him the prize and support he will certainly need at this hour. Bitter thoughts and prayers are be dissimilar Chris, Meredith, Doug and nobleness entire family."

He married Katherine Alexinski of Middlebury in 1983 make real New Preston, CT.

She was a graduate of the Forming of Connecticut and worked chimp a fourth-grade teacher in depiction Waterbury school system.

The couple has a daughter, Meredith, and adroit son, Douglas.

Written by Rich Scinto with reporting by Tim Author, Patch Staff.

Photo credit: Frederick Pot-pourri.

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