Ohio woman held for court for May crash
An Ohio woman was held for court on charges alleging she was involved in an accident while driving without a license in May in Slippery Rock that resulted in a person being injured.
Aquia Deyasia Chambers, 23, of Cleveland, was held for court on charges of accidents involving death or personal injury, accidents involving death or injury while not licensed and accidents involving damage to an attended vehicle, and summary charges including driving without insurance and giving police a false identification.
District Judge William O'Donnell ordered Chambers held on all the charges at a preliminary hearing July 14.
Borough police filed the charges on June 2 following the May 17 accident at the intersection of North Main and East Water streets.
In an affidavit of probable cause, Officer Nicholas Graham said he was dispatched to a three-vehicle accident in which a fourth vehicle fled the scene.
Graham rendered aid to an injured woman who was driving one the vehicles until Slippery Rock EMS arrived and took her to a hospital.
As the male driver of another vehicle in the crash told him that a white car caused the accident and then fled, Graham saw the white car as it drove past the scene, according to the affidavit.
He pulled the car over and identified the driver as Chambers. He released three of the vehicles and drivers after getting necessary information. One of the vehicles was towed.
Later, while filing a crash report, Graham discovered the driver's license that Chambers provided had been canceled, the insurance card she provided was for a different vehicle than the one she had driven and the home address she provided was fake, according to the affidavit.
The officer also said he learned that Chambers was on probation in Ohio and her probation officer told him she was not supposed to travel out of the state.
