Car Plows Into House; Charges Pending Against Muse Woman

Charges are pending against a Muse woman who police suspect was intoxicated when she crashed her car into a Canonsburg house early Saturday morning.

said charges against Ashley Burns, 27, are pending the results of a blood draw to determine her blood-alcohol content.

While officers were on their way to the scene at 302 Oak Spring Rd., a 911 operator advised them that the vehicle was attempting to leave the crash site.

When police arrived they discovered a red Mitsubishi Eclipse on Oak Spring with heavy damage to the passenger’s side.

“The passenger-side wheel was broken off the vehicle and the passenger airbags were deployed,” according to a police report.

Upon investigating the crash scene, police said Burns’ vehicle was traveling north up the hill when she first hit a metal pole and then struck the porch and side of the house before continuing up the hill and coming to rest on Cloverdale Avenue.

Neither Burns, nor her passengers—one of whom tried to convince police he had been the driver—were injured. She and others in the car told police that a deer had jumped out in front of the vehicle, and the crash happened when she tried to avoid hitting it.

Resident Susan Muka told police that while she was startled awake by the crash, she was uninjured.

Charges against Burns will proceed by summons, police said.