Commonwealth v. Siegert

Opinion by

Senior Judge Barbieri,

The Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (Bureau), appeals here the order of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas sustaining Daniel H. Siegert’s appeal from the one-year sus*339pension of his operating privilege imposed by the Bureau upon Siegerts failure to accede to a repeated request that he submit to a breathalyzer test as required by Section 1547(a) of the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa. C. S. §1547(a).

The testimony before the common pleas court establishes the following. Siegert was arrested on November 27, 1983 by Officer Kubit who observed…