COM., DEPT. OF TRANSP. v. Groscost

BYER, Judge.

The Department of Transportation (DOT) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Beaver County reversing DOT’s one-year suspension of Donald Dale Gros cost’s driver’s license. DOT had suspended Groscost’s license because he refused to submit to a chemical blood test.

Groscost hit a telephone pole while driving his car. When Corporal Timothy Kaye of the Borough of Industry Police Department arrived at the scene of the accident, he saw a case of beer in the front seat of Groscost’s car and smelled alcohol on Groscost. Paramedics transported Groscost, who had suffered…