A twenty-mile police pursuit ended yesterday just outside of Saltsburg when a Greensburg man’s vehicle smashed into a police cruiser on Bash Road in Loyalhanna Township.
51-year-old David Negich was pulled over by Greensburg city police for a turn signal violation at two o’clock yesterday morning on West Pittsburgh Street. He gave an officer a fake name and birth date, and while police were checking into his real identity, he drove away, with an officer running alongside and telling him to stop. Police Negich’s attempt to flee led him onto Route 119, then routes 22 and 981, with excursions onto several local roads before he hit the guide rails at Loyahlanna Dam Road and Route 981. A short while later, he went through a couple of cornfields and over a pile of dirt, becoming airborne and colliding with the cruiser.
No one was hurt. Negich told the police he was sorry, and that he was on heroin. Police confiscated two stamp bags of heroin stamped with the word “VOTE”, and eleven crack pipes.
Negich is being held on $450,000 bond with a host of charges including aggravated assault and numerous driving offenses.
