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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(North Beaver Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle reported via release today that two out of three drivers involved in a three-vehicle crash were charged by police after that collision occurred in North Beaver Township on Friday evening. Twenty-three-year-old Carlos Marin of New Castle was driving on State Route 18 at 7 p.m. without headlights during dusk driving fast. Marin hit the back of the vehicle of fifty-seven-year-old Kenneth King of New Castle, who was stopped behind the vehicle of seventy-three-year-old Beth Stachowiak of New Castle, who was waiting for traffic going northbound to pass so she can turn left from State Route 18 onto a driveway. The vehicles of Marin and King were disabled because of this collision and were towed from the scene by Del’s Towing before the scene was cleared. The vehicle of Stachowiak had damage to its back end in functional amounts. King, the passenger in his vehicle during the crash and Stachowiak also had suspected minor injuries and all of them complained about their injuries, so they either refused medical transportation or did not get medically transported. According to police, Marin was determined to be at fault, and he was charged for driving too closely to another vehicle and cited for numerous other offenses and King was charged for driving and operating a vehicle on a suspended license. The Wampum Police Department, the North Beaver Fire Department and NOGA EMS assisted on the scene of this crash.