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Story by Beaver County Radio Staff

(Big Beaver, Pa.) Pa State Police in Gibsonia are reporting that they were called to the scene of a one vehicle accident at 11:30 PM Sunday night along the Pa Turnpike at mile marker 13.1 in Big Beaver.

Troopers reported upon arriving and investigating that it was learned that a 2015 Dodge Charger that was being operated by 63-year-old Clarence Dufford of Ellwood City was traveling eastbound in the right lane at an unsafe speed and Dufford lost control of the vehicle. The vehicle traveled across the left lane and struck the center concrete barrier. After impact the vehicle traveled counter clockwise and hit the center concrete barrier a second time and can to a final rest between the left and right lane facing south.

Dufford was not injured in the accident but was cited by State Police for driving a vehicle at an unsafe speed.