Ellwood City woman charged after falling asleep while driving, causing a crash in Lawrence County

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle reported yesterday that forty-nine-year-old Kandace Baker of Ellwood City was charged after a single-vehicle crash occurred in Lawrence County on Sunday.

Baker was driving south on Highway 65 in Wayne Township at 3:50 p.m. and she fell asleep when she was driving.

She hit a concrete guide rail with her vehicle and was not injured as a result of this crash.

However, her eighteen-year-old passenger, Aiden Baker of Ellwood City complained that he had a right arm injury from the crash.

He was transported to the hospital.