Local Mishaps

Minor injuries were reported for a Sinnemahoning driver following a one-vehicle mishap last Wednesday morning on Route 120 in Gibson Township, Cameron County. State police, overnight, reported 27 year old Dawn Long was traveling west when her Ford Focus went out of control after hitting a patch of ice on a left curve. The compact went off the road, struck an embankment, rolled over and came to rest on its wheels on the north side of the road. Long is being cited for failing to give immediate notice to authorities.


An Emporium woman suffered moderate injuries Saturday afternoon when her car was struck in the side by another while traveling east from Walmart into the Country Fair Parking lot in Fox Township, Elk County. Ridgway-based state police said the collision occurred when Anne Sorg of St. Marys ran a red light and allowed her Dodge Durango to run into the side of a Ford Taurus driven by Frances Vermillion who was taken to Elk Regional Medical Center. Sorg and a passenger in Vermillion’s car, Jerry McDivitt also of Emporium, escaped injury. Sorg is charged with failing to stop at a red light.

Troopers at Emporium have cited a driver from that town with improper backing following a fender bender Saturday morning at the Kwik Fill on E. Allegheny Avenue. Authorities say Judy Hallowell backed her Ford Taurus into the front of a Dodge Intrepid driven by Richard Flynn of Grampian, PA while they were both parked at the store’s gas pumps. Police claim Hallowell pulled forward and left the scene but was later located.