(File Photo of City of Aliquippa Police Department Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) An Aliquippa man was taken to jail after a crash in Hopewell Township on Monday. According to a Facebook post from the City of Aliquippa Police Department, police were dispatched to a motor vehicle crash on Kennedy Boulevard at Sheffield Road. A 2017 dark blue Lincoln sedan could not be driven after its damage was found following the crash discovered by a Hopewell Township police officer. Forty-nine-year-old Eric Mason of Aliquippa was the driver who stated to officers that he had been drinking. Mason smelled like alcohol, his speech was slurred, and his eyes were both glassy and bloodshot. After refusing both a breath test and sobriety tests, Mason was taken to the Beaver County Jail. Mason was charged with driving under the influence and reckless driving.