EASTON, Pa. - A Northampton County police chief was cited after he was involved in a crash last month, the county district attorney announced during a news conference Tuesday.

Washington Township Police Chief Scott Miller was cited Tuesday for failure to report an accident and driving at an unsafe speed for road conditions on January 6, said DA Terry Houck.

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An investigation by the Northampton County district attorney's office found Miller had been at a restaurant for about 8 hours before he totaled his truck on Kesslersville Road in Plainfield Township.

The road was "snowy and slippery" at the time of the crash, Houck said.

A responding officer noted Miller had slurred speech and was "mush-mouthed," and had alcohol on his breath, Houck said.

Miller said at the scene there was no damage at all to the vehicle and "falsely stated" that he had not been drinking, Houck said. Miller denied drinking to the officers two times, Houck said.

Miller never mentioned the restaurant when talking to officers, Houck said.

There was no obvious staggering or falling, and Miller's speech was not continuously slurred, Houck said.

No breath tests were administered to Miller when police arrived after the crash, Houck said. There were no follow-up questions, and no additional efforts were made to determine if Miller had been "under the influence to the degree that it would render him incapable of safely driving," Houck said. No summary citations were issued.

+2 Northampton County DA looking into crash involving local police chief DA Terry Houck says he wants to put an independent set of eyes on a crash involving Washington Township Police Chief Scott Miller earlier this month.

"For the possibility of a DUI charge, the passage of time and the loss of potential evidence if it existed at all, prevented us from establishing a factual basis for us to charge Mr. Miller with this offense," Houck said.

The DA says Miller didn't call police after the accident. He called a towing company which then called police due to the amount of damage that had occurred.

At times, officers shut off the audio, but not the video, when they were near Miller, Houck said.

Police did not inform the homeowner about the crash at the scene. The homeowner found out about what happened when he later went to the police station, Houck said.

The district attorney said he did not believe officers knew that the home had been damaged on the night of the crash.

Houck said the police department could have handled the incident better.

Acting Chief Jonathon Hoadley of the Slate Belt Regional Police Department told 69 News he appreciates the DA's investigation.

He believes the officers involved followed their training.

“I'm hoping with DA Houck's press conference that a lot of questions have been answered and people understand that we were dispatched to an accident scene by a tow company and Chief Miller didn't contact us, as he should have. There was a significant amount of time between us getting there and this accident actually happening,” Hoadley said.

Hoadley says Slate Belt Regional police conducted an internal investigation and decided no disciplinary action needed to be taken.

DA Houck had said he wanted to put an independent set of eyes on the crash, after different stories about what happened began to surface.