New Brighton Police Cruiser Slides on Ice and Wrecks Responding to an Accident

(Photo Courtesy of Beaver County Radio Staff Member Curtis Walsh)

(New Brighton, Pa.) New Brighton Police Chief Ron Walton reported early Friday morning that  officers were dispatched on Thursday night  to a one car rollover accident in Daugherty Township. The officer driving the cruiser hit a patch of ice at the intersection of Blockhouse Run Road and Harmony Road while negotiating a turn.  The single car accident occurred at the intersection of Blockhouse Run Road  and Silver Spring Drive. The driver of the single accident has not been identified. Police are reporting that the cause of the accident could be alcohol or   controlled substance related.

No injuries  were reported in either accident, Chief  Walton said.