(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle reported via release yesterday that a woman from Slippery Rock was charged after a two-vehicle crash in Lawrence County on the morning of January 22nd, 2026. At approximately 9:09 a.m., fifty-seven-year-old Carole Sholes hit the vehicle of thirty-four-year-old Michelle Houk of New Castle on the intersection of Harlansburg Road and State Road in Hickory Township. Houk was transported to UPMC Jameson Hospital with a suspected injury and Sholes had a suspected minor injury but was not transported.