Published February 12. 2015 04:00PM
Rush Township Police Sgt. Duane Frederick said Wednesday that multiple charges will be filed against a driver in a crash that injured 11 people and resulted in seven medical helicopters being summoned to the scene.
Martinez Fermin, 23, of Summit Hill, was driving a 2014 Subaru Forester southbound on Claremont Avenue, Route 309, on Jan. 31 in an area known as the Mile Hill, six miles north of Tamaqua, when his vehicle crossed the concrete median and collided with a 1999 Ford F350 passenger van operated by John Kurtz, 61, of East Fallowfield, Chester County.Frederick said Fermin's BAC came back at 0.141 percent. The police investigation also revealed that Fermin was driving without valid car insurance.He will face DUI and other traffic charges, police said.In follow up to another crash which occurred later that same day at Claremont Avenue and East Main Street, Frederick said driver Edward Farley of Sugarloaf will face DUI and other charges after he drove the wrong way on East Main Street and then north in the southbound lane on Claremont Avenue.Farley's vehicle entered Claremont Avenue, still traveling north in the southbound lane and collided head-on with a 2002 Nissan operated by Gabrielle Lech, 24, of New Ringgold.Lech was injured in the collision.Police said Farley's BAC came back at 0.152 percent.