Man from Mercer, Pennsylvania taken into custody for driving impaired and charged for causing a single-vehicle crash in Pulaski Township of Lawrence County

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle report that twenty-four-year-old Brayden Parquette of Mercer, Pennsylvania was taken into custody and charged after causing a single-vehicle crash in Pulaski Township of Lawrence County on Saturday. Parquette told police that he swerved on Pennsylvania State Highway 208 to miss an animal on that road. Parquette also said he did not have control of his vehicle when the vehicle rolled over and subsequently hit a ditch and an embankment. During the investigation into this incident, Parquette showed police signs that he was impaired. Parquette got taken into custody and charges will be filed against him.