Summary vehicle code violations have been filed against the driver of a vehicle that struck and seriously injured a state trooper along Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County in March.

The incident occurred at 2:52 p.m. March 27 in the southbound lanes of the interstate in Butler Township.

At the time, troopers said Victor K. Nolan, 36, of Arjay, Kentucky, had pulled to the berm of the road while operating a 1993 Cadillac with a trailer hauling a Volvo Cross Country.

He pulled over when the rear tire blew, which caused the rim to catch fire and spread to the trunk and fuel tank area.

Sgt. Robert E. Bemis, 47, a 22-year veteran of the state police stationed at the Bureau of Training and Education at Hershey, came upon the fire scene and pulled over.

Bemis got out of his cruiser to assist Nolan in extinguishing the fire.

Jamie Edmonds, 50, of Norfolk, Virginia, was southbound in a 2005 Chevrolet Trailblazer when she came upon the scene and applied her brakes to avoid striking a truck in front of her and in doing so lost control of her vehicle.

The Trailblazer began to rotate clockwise while traveling onto the north berm and hit the guiderail.

After that impact the Trailblazer continued south along the guiderail, where it struck the state police vehicle, which then pushed forward into Bemis and Nolan.

Bemis was flown to the Geisinger Medical Center in Danville for treatment of serious injuries.

He is still recovering from those injuries.

Nolan was taken by ambulance to the Geisinger Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries.

Edmonds and passengers with her, Keikilani Bennett, 24, and a 3-year-old boy, both of Norfolk, were all taken to the Schuylkill Medical Center-South Jackson Street, Pottsville, as a precaution.

Troopers said their investigation found that Edmonds did not have any illicit narcotics or alcohol in her system at the time of the crash.

However, she was charged with two state vehicle code violations - following too closely and driving a vehicle at an unsafe speed.

Nolan was also charged under the vehicle code for safety requirement for towed vehicles (the hitch on his Cadillac was of insufficient strength to tow the amount of weight on its trailer at the time of the crash).

Also, the owner of the Cadillac, South Laurel Auto Sales, of London, Kentucky, was charged with a vehicle code violation - vehicles of nonresidents exempt from registration (the registration plate on the vehicle had expired in the state of Kentucky on Dec. 31, 2014.