{"id":17393,"date":"2017-04-27T21:21:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T01:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=17393"},"modified":"2017-04-27T21:22:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T01:22:53","slug":"one-injured-in-motorcycle-crash-on-us-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/one-injured-in-motorcycle-crash-on-us-24\/","title":{"rendered":"One Injured in Motorcycle Crash on US 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7871\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/medical2.jpg?resize=334%2C215\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"215\" \/>Paulding County \u2013 The Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a single vehicle injury crash that occurred on US 24 near the US 127 interchange in Paulding County.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 4:56 pm a 2006 Honda Goldwing motorcycle driven by Michael W. Richards, age 52, of Marion, Indiana was traveling eastbound on US 24. \u00a0Mr. Richards was negotiating a curve when his motorcycle traveled off the left side of the roadway. The motorcycle continued into the median where it overturned ejecting Mr. Richards.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Richards sustained serious injuries and was flown from the scene by Samaritan to Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, IN for treatment of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Richards was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash and alcohol use is not suspected to be a factor in the crash.\u00a0 The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert Post was assisted by the Paulding County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Cecil\/Crane Township Fire Department, Paulding EMS, Samaritan, and R &amp; O Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paulding County \u2013 The Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a single vehicle injury crash<\/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":[6,11],"tags":[446,12,59,468,440,528],"class_list":["post-17393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-government-legal","tag-accident","tag-ohio","tag-paulding","tag-police","tag-us24","tag-wreck"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-4wx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 00:46:41","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\/17393","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=17393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}