Bill Cosentino, left, says he doesn't know why he drove his Jeep Liberty off Route 8 and down about 150 feet of wooded terrain Friday afternoon.

BRADY TWP — Bill Cosentino says he doesn’t know why he drove his Jeep Liberty off Route 8 and down about 150 feet of wooded terrain Friday afternoon.

“That’s the big question mark,” the 61-year-old Butler man said as he smoked a pipe, unhurt, and watched crews tow his banged up SUV from the brush and woods.

Cosentino said he was driving north to help a friend fix a garage door. He recalled stopping for gas earlier, but he doesn’t recall the off-roading. The vehicle stopped when it was stuck and facing the road’s guard rail.

State police trooper Cody Spangler said a passer-by saw the vehicle in its predicament and called 911 about 1 p.m.

An ambulance arrived. Medics gave Cosentino a clean bill of health, and the tow truck was called.

Cosentino, who said he has no health condition that would prompt a black out, lamented that he just bought the Liberty in February after a similar incident ruined his Jeep Cherokee in a month earlier.

Cosentino said he was driving in the Mercer Road area and the next thing he knew, he’d hit a pole.

Court records say Cosentino was cited Jan. 27 with summary counts of failure to stay right, disregarding traffic lanes and giving false information. He pleaded guilty and was fined.

He will be cited with at least one traffic violation in the Friday crash.

“The operator could provide no reasonable explanation as for why he left the roadway,” Spangler said.