Sep 15, 2014 2 min read

Investigators are trying to determine how a man died when his car went off North Main Street at the South Strabane-Washington municipal line and crashed into an overgrown area behind a medical building, but wasn’t discovered for several hours.

The crashed coupe driven by Ethan Anthony Pashke was found about 3:10 p.m. Monday behind the medical office building at 997 N. Main St. by a landscaper cutting the grass in that area.

Pashke, 40, of Jefferson Avenue, Washington, was pronounced dead at the scene, Washington County Coroner Tim Warco said.

Investigators think his car was there for two or three hours before the landscaper noticed it in the brush. The coroner said an autopsy was planned late Monday to determine how Pashke died.

South Strabane Township fire Chief Scott Reese said they received a call for a “car over a hill” but found Pashke dead inside the car. He said no one witnessed the crash and investigators are trying to figure out how the car came to rest in that spot near Humbert Lane about 135 feet from the medical center’s front driveway.

South Strabane police are investigating the crash.

Staff writer Kathie O. Warco contributed to this story.