LIMESTONE TWP., Pa. (EYT) — Clarion-based State Police released the details of a crash that occurred on January 3 in Limestone Township.

According to police, the accident happened around 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, January 3, as a 2008 Subaru Outback was traveling north on Forest Drive, in Limestone Township, Clarion County. The vehicle began to slide on the snow-covered roadway, south of Kahle Road, and the driver, 56-year-old David J. Leightley, of Mayport, was unable to regain control of it.

The vehicle drove off the roadway into a ditch and continued to travel in the ditch side-swiping multiple trees. Leightley then drove the vehicle out of the ditch and traveled south across Forest Drive and came to a final rest on the southwest shoulder of the roadway.

Leightley was using a seat belt and was not injured.

He was charged with a traffic violation.

PSP Clarion released the above report on Friday, January 8, 2021.