{"id":16204,"date":"2016-12-23T07:47:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T12:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=16204"},"modified":"2016-12-23T07:47:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T12:47:34","slug":"van-wert-post-investigation-serious-injury-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/van-wert-post-investigation-serious-injury-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert Post Investigation Serious Injury Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/police-lights.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9731\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/police-lights-300x101.jpg?resize=300%2C101\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a>Convoy, OH \u2013 The Ohio State Highway Patrol\u2019s Van Wert Post is investigating a serious injury motor vehicle crash on US 30 Westbound at Convoy Rd in Van Wert County.<br \/>\nOn December 22, 2016 at 10:26 AM, a 2007 Chrysler driven by Betty Wyandt, 87, of Van Wert was eastbound on Convoy Rd. She crossed over US 30 Eastbound and failed to yield to a Westbound 2007 Chevrolet 4 door driven by Margaret Lyons, 54, of Payne, OH. The Lyons vehicle struck the Wyandt vehicle in the intersection of US 30 Westbound and Convoy Rd.<br \/>\nThe Wyandt vehicle came to rest on the right lane of US 30 Westbound and the Lyons vehicle went off the northwest corner of the intersection of US 30 and Convoy Rd, stopping at a right of way fence.<br \/>\nMrs. Wyandt was transported by Convoy EMS to Parkview Regional Medical Center. Her passenger, Bonnie Speelman, age 85, of Convoy, was taken by Scott EMS to Van Wert County Hospital. Mrs. Speelman was later flown by Samaritan to Parkview.<br \/>\nMrs. Lyons and her six year-old passenger were taken to Van Wert County Hospital by Van Wert EMS. Mrs. Lyons was later taken to Parkview by Samaritan\u2019s Mobile ICU. Her 6 year-old passenger was flown by Samaritan to Parkview.<br \/>\nSeatbelts were in use during the crash. However, the six year-old child was not properly restrained in a child booster seat.<br \/>\nThe Ohio State Highway Patrol was assisted on scene by Convoy Volunteer Fire and EMS, Van Wert EMS, Scott EMS, the Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Superior Collision and Knippen\u2019s Towing.<br \/>\nThe crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convoy, OH \u2013 The Ohio State Highway Patrol\u2019s Van Wert Post is investigating a serious injury motor vehicle crash on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3453,3834,2127,528],"class_list":["post-16204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-convoy","tag-injury","tag-van-wert","tag-wreck"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-4dm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 16:00:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}