A Moosic man fled from police attempting to pull him over after he failed to stop at a stop sign, according to criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
While fleeing in a pickup truck, Austin Kenyon, 19, hit a station wagon and injured the woman driving it, police said.<\/p>\n
Kenyon, of 187 Buckingham Heights, faces a felony charges of fleeing and eluding police.<\/p>\n
According to the complaint, at about 7 p.m. on Jan. 12, officers spotted a pickup truck headed east on East Lackawanna Avenue, whose driver failed to stop at a stop sign.<\/p>\n
At the end of East Lackawanna Avenue, the driver hit an embankment, turned around, and then headed west on the roadway.<\/p>\n
As officers were following Kenyon with lights and sirens activated, he failed to stop at a stop sign for a second time at East Lackawanna Avenue\u2019s intersection with Underwood Road. The truck made a left unto Garfield Avenue and then travelled south onto the 100 block of South Valley Avenue.<\/p>\n
The driver, later identified as Kenyon, drove seven blocks before hitting a station wagon as he turned onto Rock Street.<\/p>\n
The driver of the station wagon told officers she was injured.<\/p>\n
At that point, officers lost sight of the pickup truck.<\/p>\n
Later that day, officers contacted Susan Edwards, Keynon\u2019s mother, who put him on the phone. Keynon told officers he was a passenger in the pickup truck at the time of the incident and provided the name of another man who he said was the driver.<\/p>\n
Officers called the other man, who said he wasn\u2019t in the pickup truck and hadn\u2019t seen Kenyon for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n
Officers called Kenyon back on Jan. 13 and, upon the urging of his mother to tell the truth, admitted he had been driving.<\/p>\n
Officers noted Kenyon had been driving 50 to 60 mph on roadways on which the speed limit was 15-25 mph.<\/p>\n
Police noted the driver of the station wagon Keynon hit was forced to miss several days of work due to her injuries.<\/p>\n
Kenyon also faces charges of failing to stop at the scene of a crash and recklessly endangering another person.<\/p>\n
He is awaiting preliminary hearing, according to court records.<\/p>\n
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