Cell phone and sleepy driver factors in Tioga County accidents….Penn State researchers asking anglers to help them with their trout study…..More than 5 million vaccines given so far in Pennsylvania….
Tuesday’s high 66; Overnight low, 44
SHOWERS TODAY A HIGH OF 53 RAIN CHANGING OVER TO SNOW OVERNIGHT SOME ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE A LOW 27
SCATTERED SOME SHOWERS TOMORROW WITH A MUCH COOLER HIGH OF 32
OVERNIGHT LOW OF 21
FRIDAY IT’LL BE SUNNY BUT STILL CHILLY A HIGH OF 37 DURING THE DAY
CLEAR SKIES FRIDAY NIGHT WITH A LOW OF 22
Tioga County
State Police at Mansfield report a 19 year old Corning NY driver escaped injury in a one vehicle crash Saturday morning at around 5:30am on Route 15 South in Tioga Township, Caroline Perry was traveling south at about 70 miles per hour negotiating and right curve when she looked down to change a song on her cell phone. Her Hyundai Accent went off the road on the east side, then spun around traveling west across both lanes of the road prior to hitting a guardrail. The car then rotated 360 degrees across both lanes prior to finally stopping just off the road.
A Williamsport driver and her passengers escaped injury and a one vehicle accident occurring yesterday at around 1:20am on Route 15 in Liberty Township County troopers at Mansfield report ttanysnyder was going south when she fell asleep at the wheel of her Saturn Ion causing it to spin across the road. The car struck a guardrail then rotated 360 degrees before stopping in the middle of the road. As it was coming to final rest truck driver observed the spinning car and tried to avoid a collision however was not successful. Only minor damage was reported.
Potter County
Coudersport Based State Police did not release the name of a suspect but say charges are pending against a driver who was stopped on North Main street in Coudersport borough just before 8pm on March 18 for alleged traffic violations. Troopers claim they discovered that the driver of a 2013 Honda Accord was driving under the influence of a controlled substance and was in possession of a controlled substance.
Statewide
Pennsylvania’s Trout season opens early this year, this coming Penn State researchers, who are evaluating the colors, pattern variations and genetics of wild brook and brown trout across Pennsylvania, are asking anglers to help with their study. They want anglers to submit photos of wild brook and brown trout they catch and include a special gray card in the frame. To participate, anglers can request gray cards by going to https://bit.ly/3ij38nW, and the cards will be mailed to them for inclusion in trout photos .Anglers simply take a picture of a trout with the gray card in view and submit it via Survey123. Instructions on how to download that app will be included when they receive the gray cards.The Survey 123 app will ask anglers questions about their catches researchers promise that fishing locations will remain confidential and never be published as exact points. This research is open to all anglers who complete survey forms and are at least 18 years of age.
Researchers also will be able to look at the approximate size, and therefore age, of the fish in the pictures with the gray cards included and estimate the timing of breeding condition as pictures are
The researchers want wild trout quickly photographed and released,Anglers participating in the study may want to take a step away from the stream bank to snap their photos, as a number of anglers have reported they dropped their phones in the stream.
To learn more about the wild trout genetics research and the trout color study, watch this YouTube video — https://youtu.be/9ZUGDIUh1Ak — and go to https://sites.psu.edu/troutstudy/.
For more information, email sjm5467@psu.edu.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., March 30, there were 5,032 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 1,020,300. Here in the Black Forest Broadcasting Service Area McKean county has 2387 confirmed cases; Tioga, 2248; Elk 1350; Potter 843 and Cameron 186. In neighboring New York State Cattaraugus County has 4792 confirmed cases and Allegny County 3018.
There are 1,916 individuals hospitalized in Pennsylvania with COVID-19. Of that number, 389 patients are in the intensive care unit with COVID-19. Most of the patients hospitalized are ages 65 or older, and most of the deaths have occurred in patients 65 or older.
While the number of hospitalizations is down from the peak on Christmas Day and last May 3, the moving average of number of hospitalized patients has started to increase.
Statewide percent positivity for the week of March 19 – March 25 stood at 7.6%–an increase from the previous week. As of 11:59 p.m. Monday, March 29, there were 34 new deaths identified by the Pennsylvania death registry, reported for a total of 25,049 deaths attributed to COVID-19.
According to the CDC, as of Tuesday morning, March 30, Pennsylvania is the 12th state in the country in terms of percentage of population which has received at least one dose of a vaccine…
Vaccine providers have administered 5,043,676 total vaccine doses as of Tuesday, March 30.
This week, a total of 5,870,320 doses will have been allocated through April 3:
Mask-wearing is required in all businesses and whenever leaving home, and while outdoors when social distancing is not possible even if fully vaccinated. Health officials continue to sayonsistent mask-wearing is critical to preventing the spread of COVID-19. In licensed nursing and personal care homes, there are 69,224 resident cases of COVID-19, and 14,231 cases among employees, for a total of 83,455 at 1,575 distinct facilities in all 67 counties.
Approximately 26,409 of the total cases are among health care workers.