BEAVER, Beaver County — The Cranberry Township man facing third-degree murder charges was allegedly traveling at 84 mph in a 25 mph zone less than 2 seconds before a crash that killed two people.
Audible gasps interrupted the Thursday, July 31, preliminary hearing in Beaver County Common Pleas Courtroom 1 after testimony from reconstruction analysis specialist and state Trooper Sean Gercken that the driver had the “pedal to the metal” from 5 to 2.1 seconds before the crash.
He responded with Beaver Falls City police to the 3:20 p.m. crash June 29 where Israel Tun Cooch, 45, is accused of being drunk and speeding through a red light in a gray Dodge Ram 1500 and T-boning a red Nissan Altima, killing two people in the sedan and injuring a pedestrian…