(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Gibsonia reported that charges against a forty-year-old Ellwood City man are pending investigation after he crashed his vehicle in Lawrence County on Wednesday. Earl King Jr. was driving on Wampum Road in Wayne Township at 8:10 a.m. and went off of the right side of the road before hitting an embankment. King’s vehicle then hit a guide rail and he was transported by an ambulance for further medical treatment of the suspected minor injuries that he sustained at the time of this crash. A further investigation confirmed that King was subsequently arrested and he was determined to be driving under the influence.