12/5/16
by News Department on 12/05/16
2 Injured in crash...
West Penn township police are looking into how a couple involved in a crash on Route 895, Sunday morning, were operating a Subaru Outback station wagon owned by a woman in jail.
The vehicle involved in the incident is owned by 45 year old Kerri Blasko, of Coaldale, who is incarcerated in the Carbon County prison charged with the abduction and stabbing of a Tamaqua woman on Nov. 18. The crash occurred at 7:30 a.m. as the couple was traveling east. The driver told West Penn Chief of Police Brian Johnson he passed out at the wheel crossing the roadway entering the north berm where the unit impacted with a tree.
The driver and a female occupant were transported to a trauma center. Police said the male driver was operating the vehicle with a suspended driver's license out of New Jersey and charges are pending on the incident with the report of a blood alcohol test.
Summit Hill police charged Blasko with taking the victim to East Mountaintop road where after being kidnapped she was stabbed and robbed.
Police are still looking for two additional accomplices in that incident.
