State police respond to 6 fatal crashes over holiday weekend
State police responded to six fatal crashes across Pennsylvania during the Easter weekend.
From April 3 to 5, troopers were called to 532 total crashes. Six people were killed in those accidents, and 42 of the crashes were related to motorists driving under the influence.
Those numbers are similar to last year, when during the same three-day period state police responded to 527 crashes. Four of those crashes were fatal, killing six people in total.
State police did not provide the enforcement numbers for individual troops.
Of the six fatal crashes, one occurred in Donegal Township. Just after 6 p.m. April 4, Daniel Pasqualucci was driving a sedan at speeds above 80 mph while going the wrong way on westbound Route 40, according to a release issued by the Washington County coroner’s office.
Pasqualucci, 41, of Donegal Township, collided head-on with an SUV near Route 40’s intersection with Lake Road. He was declared dead at the scene by Coroner Timothy Warco.
The driver and the passenger of the SUV were flown to a Pittsburgh hospital.
Over the holiday weekend, state police also made 286 DUI arrests. Troopers handed out 3,230 speeding tickets, 40 citations for child seat violations and 335 citations for seat belt violations.