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A Washington man was killed in a traffic accident Thursday morning in East Finley Township. The Washington County Coroner’s Office say 43-year-old Matthew Rafferty died in the emergency room of Washington Hospital, shortly after the vehicle he was driving slammed into a tree around six-thirty on Cracraft Road. State Police are investigating.