Crime briefs
Oct. 11, 2005 Uniontown
Accident reported
Two were transported to the Uniontown Hospital for minor injuries after a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Main and Grant streets around 3:15 p.m. Monday, according to Uniontown Fire Department Assistant Chief Chuck Coldren. Uniontown fire department and ambulance service responded to the scene. City police investigated the accident.
North Union Twp.
Hit-and-run probed
State police said Joann Ondick, 64, of Uniontown was taken to Uniontown Hospital with pain in her ribs following a hit-and-run collision at 7:39 a.m. Monday at the intersection of Johnston and Cavanaugh streets. Police said a silver or light green car ran a stop sign and hit Ondick’s vehicle as she was turning left from Johnston Street to Cavanaugh Street, and then fled. The car has damage to the driver’s side front quarter panel area, police said. Anyone with information about the hit-and-run vehicle is asked to call the station at 724-439-7111.
Uniontown
Truck stolen
City police said a 1993 maroon and silver GMC pickup truck owned by O.C. Cluss Lumber was stolen from its lumberyard near Bailey Park around 1 a.m. Sunday. An officer on patrol noticed the gate was open and damaged. It appeared that vehicle had been driven through it, police said. Officers found nothing during a search there and then went to Cluss’s yard on Pennsylvania Avenue, where they found a tractor-trailer with the keys inside and the headlights and windshield wipers on. Police said more than one person appeared to be involved and they apparently fled just before officers arrived.
Uniontown
Car damaged
City police said Jonie Thorpe’s car was found damaged outside her Lenox Street home at 12:01 a.m. Monday. Police said her windshield, rear window and driver’s side windows were broken and three tires flattened. A window of her home also was broken.