CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — A 39-year-old Chambersburg man is facing numerous charges after both a victim in his car and a witness say he intentionally crashed his car with a child in the car. Gladimy Seraphin posted bail of $5,000 after being charged with misdemeanor simple assault, two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment and felony child endangerment, state police reported.
Seraphin was freed, pending a court hearing on Tuesday, June 23.
Police said they were called to a reported domestic altercation to the area around Warm Spring Road and Lincoln Way West in Hamilton Township around just after 3:10 p.m. on June 16. Troopers said they learned en route that a male and female were arguing on the side of the road.
The adult victim told officers she was the passenger in a red Ford F-150 driven by Seraphin while their 1-year-old child was in the back seat. Troopers said the woman and Seraphin began arguing about purchasing food at a nearby grocery store until it escalated into obscenities. Then Seraphin allegedly “decisively cut the steering wheel to the right, striking the adjacent guide rail,” troopers said intentionally crashing the car with all three people inside.
Police also interviewed a witness who was directly behind the pickup truck and said that at no point prior to the crash was there anything in the road to cause the crash. Specifically, the witness said “there were no obstructions on the roadway or anything that would justify such an action.”
Officers said Seraphin told them “he did not purposely wreck their vehicle and further related a deer ran out in front of him.”
