{"id":31938,"date":"2021-02-16T07:35:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T12:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=31938"},"modified":"2021-02-16T07:35:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T12:35:15","slug":"patrol-investigates-fatal-crash-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/patrol-investigates-fatal-crash-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrol Investigates Fatal Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defiance &#8211; The Defiance Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that occurred February 15, 2021 at 8:09 p.m. on County Road 24 north of US 6 in Springfield Township, Williams County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Police-Ambulance-emergency.jpeg?resize=800%2C534&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Police-Ambulance-emergency.jpeg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Police-Ambulance-emergency.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Police-Ambulance-emergency.jpeg?resize=560%2C374&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Police-Ambulance-emergency.jpeg?resize=260%2C173&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Police-Ambulance-emergency.jpeg?resize=160%2C107&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver of a 2011 Dodge Nitro was traveling northbound on County Road 24 when it went off the left of the roadway, and got stuck in a ditch. While attempting to get out of the ditch the Dodge Nitro became engulfed in flames.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Williams County Coroner Dr. Kevin Park pronounced the driver of the Dodge dead at the scene.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional information will be released after positive identification and the next-of-kin has been notified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this crash should contact the Defiance Patrol Post at (419) 784-1025&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Patrol was assisted on scene by the Williams County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Williams County EMS, Styker Fire Department, and the Williams County Coroner\u2019s Office. The crash remains under investigation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ohio State Highway Patrol encourages drivers and occupants to always wear their safety belts, and to never drive distracted or impaired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defiance &#8211; The Defiance Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that occurred February 15,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27542,"comment_status":"closed","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":[1673],"tags":[417,2390,12],"class_list":["post-31938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-construction","tag-county","tag-fatal-crash","tag-ohio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Police-Ambulance-emergency.jpeg?fit=1000%2C667&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-8j8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 08:06:52","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\/31938","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=31938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}