Crawford v. Commonwealth

KELLEY, Judge.

This is an appeal 1 by Robert B. Crawford (licensee) from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (trial court) dismissing his appeal from a one-year license suspension imposed by the Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (DOT) pursuant to Section 1547 of the Vehicle Code (Code), 75 Pa.C.S. § 1547.

The evidence of record reveals that on July 31, 1989, Officer Richard White of the Ross Township Police Department was dispatched to the scene of a fire. Upon arriving, he was informed that the licensee had run through a roadblock set up by the fire…