Motorist Able to Drive Away From Car Crash

Shortly after 3PM yesterday afternoon, fire fighters and police units responded to what they thought might have been an accident due to the wet weather conditions.

Which indeed, it might have been, but they couldn’t have predicted the result.

Initial dispatch had Rayburn Township and Rural Valley firefighters as well as State Police troopers respond to a vehicle that was believed to have driven off of Route 85 in Valley Township into Cowanshannock Creek below.

However, State Police last night confirmed the incident was reclassified as a ‘non-reportable accident’ after the driver and vehicle were able to leave the scene.

The trooper who responded to the crash said the driver was uninjured at the time of his arrival and was able to remove herself from the vehicle. The driver got out of the vehicle through the passenger-side door but Kittanning #6 ambulances did not need to transport.

State Police found the vehicle did hit into some nearby trees, but the grey four-door sedan - that looked to be coming from the direction of Cowanshannock Township just two miles away – did not impact a guardrail or have disabling damage.

It was also reported that other motorists stopped to assist the driver, but no other vehicles were reported damaged.

Rural Valley units were also dispatched to another vehicle crash at about 1AM early this morning for a reported vehicle rollover along State Route 2003.

Armstrong 9-1-1 dispatchers were contacted about the crash by Indiana County, but were unable to give rescue crews which side of the street the crash was – either toward Rural Valley or Elderton due to an inability to get in touch with the passerby caller.

Units later confirmed the accident was off the roadway near the street’s intersection with State Route 210 in Gastown near Christ Lutheran Church.

Because of that, Rural Valley and medical responders were waived off and returned in service.

Aside from medical responses throughout the county, no accidents due to weather conditions were reported.