Commonwealth v. Waxler

STEEGE, J.,

At approximately 10:00 pan. on the evening of September 14, 1985, Trooper Darrell L. Williams of the Pennsylvania State Police, while on duty, received a report of a one-vehicle accident on Route 168 just north of its intersection with Route 30 in Greene Township, this county. He arrived at the scene shortly thereafter and found defendant, alone, seated in his 1976 Chevrolet pickup truck, which was off the road and had evidently struck the side of a barn and a tree.

In answer to the trooper’s inquiries, defendant said that he had been driving the truck at the time of the accident…