{"id":251575,"date":"2026-07-25T01:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251575\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T01:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:01:17","slug":"driver-drank-multiple-shots-of-whiskey-before-hitting-killing-motorcyclist-in-fayette-county-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251575\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver drank multiple shots of whiskey before hitting, killing motorcyclist in Fayette County, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is facing several charges, including homicide by vehicle, after police said he told troopers he drank upwards of seven shots of whiskey before getting in his car and killing a motorcyclist in Fayette County on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-three-year-old Roger Cline of Grindstone is also charged with homicide by vehicle while DUI and traffic violations after police said he crashed his Chevy Equinox into Jacob Wolfe&#8217;s Honda Nighthawk on Grindstone Road in Jefferson Township around 10:30 p.m. Thursday, killing the 35-year-old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the criminal complaint, while police were talking to Cline, troopers noted that his eyes were bloodshot and glassy, there was a &#8220;strong odor of alcohol emanating from his breath&#8221; and he had urinated on himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Troopers said Cline told them he was coming from an &#8220;undisclosed location,&#8221; where he had taken five to seven shots of whiskey. Cline said he saw the motorcycle&#8217;s headlights coming around the corner and hit his car, and after the crash, he dragged Wolfe under his car for several feet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cline refused to submit to standard field sobriety tests, but agreed to a preliminary breath test, which police said came back positive for alcohol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said when they looked at Cline&#8217;s car, a pill bottle was found in the front driver&#8217;s seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Troopers said they also talked to someone who said he had seen Cline drive by the fire station heading west on Grindstone Road. The witness said after hearing a loud crash, he drove toward the noise, and saw Cline dragging Wolfe under his car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 5, court paperwork shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is facing several charges, including homicide by vehicle, after police said he told troopers he drank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18837,52618,2298,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-251575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-dui","tag-dui-crash","tag-fayette-county","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}