A Ligonier Township, Pa., police officer was killed early Saturday when a van traveling in the wrong direction on Route 30 struck his patrol vehicle head-on.
Pennsylvania K-9 Officer Killed in Head-On Accident
A Ligonier Township, Pa., police officer was killed early Saturday when a van traveling in the wrong direction on Route 30 struck his patrol vehicle head-on.
May 5, 2015
K-9 handler Lt. Eric A. Eslary of the Ligonier Township (Pa.) PD was killed Saturday in a traffic accident. (Photo: Screen Shot from WTAE TV)
State police said Lt. Eric A. Eslary, 40, of Ligonier Township, died in the crash near Idlewild Park in Ligonier Township.
According to state police, around 1:45 a.m. Lt. Eslary was traveling west in a Ford Expedition while on patrol in the area of Clark Hollow Road when a commercial van traveling east in the westbound lane struck Lt. Eslary’s vehicle head-on.
Lt. Eslary was taken to Excela Latrobe Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:46 a.m.,the Westmoreland County coroner’s office told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette .